'The South Side Irish Parade – people enjoy themselves, and start enjoying themselves sometimes very early,' Mayor Lightfoot said.
Four separate St. Patrick’s Day parades also gave hundreds of thousands a chance to finally see powerful political leaders in person. There were parades downtown in Grant Park and along Archer Avenue in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood on Saturday.
The South Side Irish Parade drew the largest crowd by far. Mayor Lightfoot took issue with some accounts that posted on social media of how the crowd reacted to her. Among inaccurate claims cited by Lightfoot were that both she and Gov. Pritzker had ducked out midway through the parade. At one point, the mayor was seen traversing Western Avenue in a golf cart followed by her security detail's vehicle.
Another would-be Republican governor, State sen. Darren Bailey of Xenia, marched with dozens of supporters.The incumbent Democratic governor they hope to unseat, JB Pritzker, got a combination of cheers and boos from the crowd. Pritzker marched with a group of supporters, whose chants of, "JB, JB, JB," counteracted the boo-birds.
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