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CBS2: Tunney “Open” To Moving Pride Parade

Eight long hours after yesterday’s Pride Parade ended,  Chicago Police vehicles are stacked up on Halsted Street as officers try to maintain control of the area. On the heels of a post-Pride Parade shitshow of epic proportions, Alderman Tom Tunney today tells CBS2Chicago today that he is open to moving the Pride Parade downtown. “We hear from

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MAN UP: Parade Backers Need To Own Their Mess

Eight hours after Sunday’s parade ended, police were still hustling tomaintain control of area streets. The Chicago Police Department fired off a press release minutes after yesterday’s Pride Parade ended. In it, they perkily announced that the parade garnered a mere eight arrests and a good time was had by all. End of story. Bye

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PRIDE VIDEOS: Cop Car Dancefloor And More

Video: Crowd pummels a cop car during Pride 2014 Here are a few videos from Pride 2014 that have caught our eyes so far: Kristen Linscott’s photos of an unruly crowd dancing on and smashing the windows of a Chicago Police Department patrol car at Aldine and Broadway come to life in her Telly video.

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PROUD?: Squad Cars Pummeled By Rowdy Spectators

UPDATE JUNE 30TH: Video of the police car dance is now up, also from @runningwithcf ————- At least two Chicago police cars were heavily damaged by rowdy crowds along Halsted Street during this afternoon’s Pride Parade.  @runningwithcf sent these photos out on Twitter, showing a huge crowd swarming an unattended squad car at Halsted and

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FLASHBACK: Scenes From Pride Then & Now

Let’s have some fun. Here’s a look at scenes from the 2015 Chicago Pride Parade side-by-side with photos of the same locations during long-ago Pride Parades. The parade has really changed. The buildings? Not so much. Broadway At Wellington, 1985 1985 Photo: Alan Light on Flickr Broadway & Belmont 1976 1976 photo: Leather Archives & Museum Broadway

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SPITBALLING: How HUGE Will Parade Organizers Say This Year’s Crowd Was?

online poll by Opinion Stage (function () { var opst = document.createElement(‘script’); var os_host = document.location.protocol == “https:” ? “https:” : “http:”; opst.type = ‘text/javascript’; opst.async = true; opst.src = os_host + ‘//’ + ‘www.opinionstage.com/polls/2208625/embed.js’; (document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)[0] || document.getElementsByTagName(‘body’)[0]).appendChild(opst); }()); Here’s your chance to put your psychic powers to the test. After Sunday’s parade concludes, how