{"id":342132,"date":"2025-10-30T02:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/342132\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T02:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:31:29","slug":"chris-witaske-to-be-grand-marshal-of-st-charles-christmas-parade-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/342132\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Witaske to be Grand Marshal of St. Charles Christmas Parade \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Chris Witaske \u2014 who plays Pete on the Emmy-winning FX show &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/fx-reveals-fate-for-future-of-chicago-based-the-bear\/3781374\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bear,<\/a>&#8221; that&#8217;s set and filmed in Chicago \u2014 will return to his suburban hometown this winter as the Grand Marshal of the St. Charles Electric Christmas Parade. <\/p>\n<p>The St. Charles Electric Christmas Parade takes place at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 29. The parade steps off at 6th Street and Main Street. Traveling down Main Street, the parade comes to an end at 4th Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to Witaske as Grand Marshal, parade watchers will see bands, floats and even Santa Claus. <\/p>\n<p>St. Charles Business Alliance announced Witaske as the parade&#8217;s Grand Marshal in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1243268884501224&amp;set=a.327169272777861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post on social media Wednesday<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Witaske is a St. Charles native who graduated from St. Charles East High School in 2001, according to the post. After earning a degree in theater arts from the University of Iowa, Witaske moved to Chicago to work at comedy venues, including the famous Second City Theater. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m incredibly proud to be from St. Charles \u2013 it\u2019s such a wonderful community that has given me so much support throughout the years,\u201d said Witaske. \u201cAlthough I now live in Los Angeles, St. Charles will always be home to me, and I\u2019m truly honored to be part of this holiday tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Chris Witaske \u2014 who plays Pete on the Emmy-winning FX show &#8220;The Bear,&#8221; that&#8217;s set and filmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":342133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[568,960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-342132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115460773345248840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}