{"id":402585,"date":"2025-11-25T01:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/402585\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T01:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:59:11","slug":"the-iconic-chicago-thanksgiving-parade-will-step-off-this-week-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/402585\/","title":{"rendered":"The iconic Chicago Thanksgiving Parade will step off this week \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 91st annual Chicago Thanksgiving Parade will step off this week, kicking off a day of celebration throughout the area.<\/p>\n

That parade steps off plenty early in the day for families to get back together in the afternoon and evening hours, and will feature musical performances, floats and a whole lot more.<\/p>\n

According to parade organizers, things will get underway at the intersection of Ida B. Wells Drive and State Street at approximately 8 a.m. Thursday, with the parade running through at least 11 a.m.<\/p>\n

The parade route travels down State Street from Ida B. Wells Drive to Randolph Street, with thousands of revelers expected to attend.<\/p>\n

According to organizers, Maurice \u201cChef Blaque\u201d Shelton is the Grand Marshal of the parade.<\/a> He is the founder of Steel City Bakery and Black Rose Pastries, and has appeared on multiple Food Network and Netflix competition shows, according to a press release.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s parade will include floats, giant balloons, marching bands and live entertainment, including a performance from the Jesse White Tumblers, according to officials.<\/a><\/p>\n

The parade will air on CBS Thursday morning, and will reair on Pluto later in the day. More information can be found on the parade website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 91st annual Chicago Thanksgiving Parade will step off this week, kicking off a day of celebration throughout…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":402586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,44599],"class_list":{"0":"post-402585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-thanksgiving"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115607867491740646","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402585","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=402585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}