Chi-Town Squares readies itself for 2025’s Pride Parade - SUNDAY JUNE 29, 2025!
Stay tuned for specific info on our line-up position, which is to be distributed June 24, 2025! Once we find out we’ll be sending out emails and posting more info about our line up spot and, very importantly our line up time. Please join us and bring your friends (they don’t have be dancers) - it’s a lot of fun!
As in the last couple of years, Chi-Town Squares will be marching, dancing, smiling, clapping, cheering and handing out (not throwing) items at the Chicago Pride Parade! This year it's this Sunday, June 29. We encourage all of you who can to come out and be a part of the fun. We have the use of a big nice truck this year (thank you, Vera!) and we are very excited to have our own Michael Maltenfort calling for us!
We need help with dancers, card-passer-outers, water-bottle-runners and banner-carriers. We want to particularly emphasize: your friends can come help and march without needing to know how to dance, or being a member of our club.
Notes: You should plan on bringing food if you need it, We are bringing power bars, water and possibly there will be some fruit available. Folks can walk as long as they’d like, then leave the parade route at any Designated Parade Crossing streets.
Attire: Dress comfortably and cool, with good shoes for walking. Many of us are wearing our new CTS polos - generally bright colors are suggested, but (as last year) there will be nobody stationed at a velvet rope sizing up your outfit.
We'll be distributing cards with info about our summer free no-experience-needed dances and SSD lessons beginning September:
And we have some cool rainbow wristbands with our website address along with the exhortation "Dance With Us!"
We will be handing these items out to folks along the parade route - we have to wait till the parade starts along the route to do this. We will posting maps of the line up spot and the window of time we have for loading up and decorating the truck - the parade begins at 11 am, but generally the line up time has been a couple of hours earlier.
We really hope you join us! It truly is a great way to experience the event - curiously it's much calmer than watching from the sidelines, and it's good exercise!
