MOVE YOUR VEHICLES BY 4am, or the city will move them for you. Uptown streets with parking restrictions on Sunday, 4am to 8pm (click to enlarge) Promptly at 4am, towing and ticketing will begin along the designated streets. It also means that all 160 parade entrants will need to assemble, necessitating parking restrictions in order to provide the floats space to wait for their turn to join the parade. If you haven't experienced Parade Day before, please know that there will be hundreds of thousands of spectators, which translates into traffic gridlock, especially in the areas around the route. Hey, in case you didn't know, Uptown is hosting a parade on Sunday! The 50th Chicago Pride Parade will step off at noon at Broadway and Montrose.īut that doesn't mean that there won't be a lot of preparation, starting early. The Parade's very detailed information page is here.Īlong Montrose, numbers tell the parade entrants In Uptown, it's on Buena between Sheridan and Broadway. There will be several places where cooling buses are available. There will be port-a-potties scattered along the parade route and along the staging areas. Public drinking is highly discouraged. Police will be stationed in the crowd and there is a possible $1000 fine for drinking on the public way.CTA has a really informative page on the logistics of getting around Sunday here. Public transportation is your best bet - CTA will be putting extra trains on the Red Line, and several bus lines will be rerouted: #8 Halsted #22 Clark #36 Broadway 76 Diversey 77 Belmont 78 Montrose 80 Irving Park 151 Sheridan and #152 Addison. Expect lots of people, and lots of vehicular traffic, especially on the arterial streets. etc., etc., etc.! Show your #UptownPride. Uptown retailers will be open! Stop by Uptown Arcade, Satellite Cafe, Jake's, Fat Cat, Provisions Uptown, My Buddy's, Tattoo Factory, Uptown Lounge, Baton Show Lounge.Expect music (lots of music!) and a party atmosphere beginning around 8am, when streets close and the floats begin to arrive. It starts early! The parade kicks off at noon from Broadway and Montrose, but floats and participants start arriving early to the staging areas.Go if someone you HAVE to see is playing, but show up no later than when they say doors open or you're not getting in before 2am.Some things to know about Sunday's Pride Parade taking place in our front yard: Just the front of house staff is completely disinterested and mostly incompetent. The sound is good but they fog the place to oblivion so you can't see where the DJ is unless you really look hard. Once you're in, it's actually not half bad. Even people with tickets spend an hour in line, either because their staff is useless or because having a line looks good. "One of the worst run venues I've been to from a front of house standpoint. "Great sound and great music, but could seriously benefit from a stricter door policy to keep out the techno tourists and Wrigleyville bros. i was dancing having a great time minding my own business until i used the bathroom & was greeted by bouncers to kick me out of the place for what? i have tats on my face, if you’re going to have all gender bathrooms bc u feel u have to by law ,why throw out people who are genuine at heart? get your staff in check bc it’s bullshit?" "i am a born resident of chicago & even in this year i’ve never felt so discriminated against. Don’t come to me with the “all inclusive” bull**t. Bathrooms are a total mess, all gender which means that men and women have to pee in the same bathroom with minimum privacy. My wife went to the bartender with a cup asking for water and he just told her “you have to fill that in the bathroom”. "Music was great, unfortunately is the only place where they charge you a ridiculous high cover and water is denied if you don’t pay for it. The last shows I've seen were Luke Vibert and Ben UFO.
"This place books a nice variety of electronic music.