Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade and the dyeing of the Chicago River will bring a crowd to downtown Saturday after a two-year break due to the pandemic.
The Chicago River is dyed green in celebration of St. Patrick's Day on March 13, 2021, in Chicago. Mayor Lightfoot sanctioned the famous river dyeing to proceed last year, but the Riverwalk was closed to minimize the number of people gathering due to COVID-19.
The parade will honor essential workers. It will feature more than 100 units, said Dave Adams, operations manager and parade coordinator at the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. Adams said some of the difficulty of this year’s planning was making sure they were going to have the event because they had to plan for city departments to have all the resources needed to ensure the parade is safe. That means departments had to plan for employees to work overtime on a Saturday, Adams said.
As part of planning leading up to the parade, Adams said his team also looked at COVID-19 case numbers and saw they were “pointing in the right direction.” People will not be required to wear a mask or show proof of vaccine to attend the parade. Mat Haywood, bar manager at O’Callaghans, is expecting a line out the door. He recalled being busy despite the parade being canceled in 2020, with people who had come for the parade deciding to still go out that night not knowing that everything would shut down a few days later.
Kieran Ahern, general manager of Fado, said his staff has been ordering extra product for a couple weeks, slicing corned beef for a week and he had 60 kegs of Guinness delivered a few days ago.
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