Get ready to celebrate love, equality, and community at the 2026 Chicago Pride Parade, one of the city’s most vibrant and iconic summer traditions!
The Aurora Pride Parade returns to downtown Aurora, Illinois, celebrating its seventh year as a vibrant showcase of love, equality, and diversity.
The 2026 Buffalo Grove Pride Fest, featuring 100 entries, 2,000 participants and a crowd of thousands, celebrates the LGBTQ+ community in the northwest suburbs.
What a year it’s been! Chicago truly showed up for Pride. Here are ten moments that made 2025 unforgettable.
Community members can nominate individuals who embody the spirit of Pride to lead the 55th annual parade on Sunday, June 28, 2026.
One of the most-anticipated floats in the 2025 Chicago Pride Parade is Asians and Friends Chicago (AFC), which brings a “Wicked/Wizard of Oz” mashup to the south-bound parade route.
The Second City Outlaws are ready for the annual Chicago Pride Parade on Sunday, June 29, set to deliver the best in country dancing, fun and entertainment throughout two-mile parade route.
Antonia “Tata” Flores, a Chicago native who long worked for the Chicago Transit Authority as a bus driver, rode her Harley-Davidson motorcycle along with two friends in the Chicago Pride Parade in 1987.
Dorothy – one of Chicago’s only lesbian bars, located in the West Town neighborhood – is ready for its debut walking the Chicago Pride Parade on Sunday, June 29.
The long-lasting legacy of Rowan Shimer will be on full display Sunday, June 29, in the Chicago Pride Parade.
TaskForce Prevention & Community Services, an LGBTQ+ youth-focused health and wellness organization located on the west side of Chicago, has been selected as the inaugural “Out Front” Leader of the 2025 Chicago Pride Parade on Sunday, June 29.
For the first time in Chicago Pride history, a local community group will lead the Chicago Pride Parade as the inaugural “Out Front” Leader, followed by this year’s Community Grand Marshals.
PRIDEChicago, the all-volunteer organization behind the city’s most vibrant and anticipated annual event, proudly unveils “United in Pride” as the official theme of the 2025 Chicago Pride Parade.
Longtime Chicago Pride Parde coordinator Tim Frye has been inducted into The U.S. Association of Prides (USA Prides) 2025 Hall of Fame.
Celebrate love, equality, and diversity as the 6th annual Aurora Pride Parade returns Sunday, June 8th, 2025 at Noon. Expect a day filled with colorful floats, incredible performances, and an amazing sense of community.
The City of Chicago honored longtime Chicago Pride Parade coordinator Richard Pfeiffer with an honorary street sign—“Rich Pfeiffer Parade Way”—at the northwest corner of Belmont Avenue and North Halsted Street.
The Chicago Pride Parade, the culmination of Pride Month, returns Sunday, June 30 at 11 a.m.
Planning to attend the Chicago Pride Parade? Here’s everything you need to know.
With the 53rd annual Chicago Pride Parade set for Sunday, June 30, Art Johnston has decades of wide-ranging memories and emotions around Pride Month, which culminates locally on the last Sunday of June with the rainbow-drenched parade through multiple northside Chicago neighborhoods in front of about 1 million spectators.