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Subscribe to Block Club Chicago, an independent, 501(c)(3), journalist-run newsroom. Jake Wittich is a Report for America corps member covering Lakeview, Lincoln Park and LGBTQ communities across the city for Block Club Chicago. This year mark’s the festival’s return to Pride Month, which is traditionally celebrated in June to mark the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. Last year, the festival was rescheduled from June to October due to rising coronavirus cases earlier in the summer. It will happen June 17-19, the weekend before the parade, according to the business alliance’s website. Pride Fest, a separate event organized by the Northalsted Business Alliance, is also returning this year. “We missed that person in 2020 and now 2021, we won’t miss them again in 2022 or after.” Credit: Ariel Cheung/DNAinfo The 2017 Pride Parade. They can have a happy, productive life and be LGBTQI+,” Frye said. “I always imagine that one person (or more) that comes to the parade sees what can be in their life. Pfeiffer coordinated the parade from 1974 through 2019.įrye and his husband came out as gay after watching a Pride Parade, he said last year. This year marks the first time the parade will be organized solely by Frye after his husband, Richard Pfeiffer, died in 2019. The parade, which draws thousands to Chicago’s Northalsted neighborhood to celebrate LGBTQ pride, will kick off at Montrose Avenue and Broadway in Uptown and make its way south, ending at Diversey Avenue and Sheridan Road. We hope not, but always have to keep that in mind.” “We’re aware, though, that the safety of participants and onlookers comes first. “It’s exciting to be back in person,” Frye said. This year’s parade will happen June 26, said parade coordinator Tim Frye. NORTHALSTED - The Chicago Pride Parade is returning this June after two years of being canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.