Grab your lawn chairs. The back-to-school festival returns Saturday. Why it matters: For more than 90 years, the Bud Billiken ...

ABC7 Chicago will broadcast the 2025 Bud Billiken Parade on August 9 as it celebrates 96 years. The boat of fisherman David ...

Our picks for events in and around Chicago this weekend.

Myiti Sengstacke Rice of Chicago Defender Charities joins us to preview the 96th Annual Bud Billiken Parade, the nation’s ...

Discover hosted the second annual Taste of Bud Billiken at the Shine Bright Community Center, near 85th Street and Cottage ...

The second annual Taste of Bud Billiken, a sneak peek of the city's back-to-school parade, will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m ...

The iconic Bud Billiken Parade, the largest and most prestigious African American parade in the United States, is celebrating its 95th anniversary Saturday, Aug. 10, on Chicago’s South Side.

Bud Billiken first appeared on the Defender Junior page in the Chicago Defender on April 2, 1921. In 1921, Abbott started Defender Junior, a page of his weekly paper devoted to children.

ABC 7 is CHICAGO PROUD to be the only TV station in town broadcasting the 88th Annual Bud Billiken Parade, live, Saturday, August 12th, from 10:00 am-12:30 pm on the station's main channel ABC 7 ...

The parade kicked off Saturday, August 14 at 10 a.m. and ABC 7 captured all the parade highlights with an hour special, "BUD BILLIKEN PARADE: CELEBRATING 92 YEARS." ...

“The Bud Billiken Parade has been around since I was a kid and has always been something special to not only me but to the city of Chicago”, says J.Ivy.

Bud Billiken Parade returns to South Side: ‘We are all here to have a good time’ Some groups along the Bronzeville parade route roped off their space out of an abundance of caution for COVID ...