This patriotic girl offers hope for Morton Grove's future.
The grand marshal of this year's parade wasn't a person, it was Jerusalem Lutheran School. The sign on the ark says "We teach about Jesus."
Mayor Dan Staackmann waves to the crowd.
The Troopers Drum and Bugle Corps came from Casper, Wyoming to march.
The western cavalry uniforms of the Troopers reminded me that in the next town on the west, Niles, is where the last surviving veteran of the Indian Wars is buried. Frederick Fraske served in Wyoming.
This is the sesquicentennial year of the start of the Civil War. Chicago Light Artillery Battery A delighted the crowd by occasionally firing blanks (I think) from a musket. The real Battery A fought at Shiloh, Chattanooga, and Atlanta.
One doesn't think about Bolivian dancers on Independence Day, but we are a nation of immigrants. The Renacer Boliviano Dancers of Chicago were among the most enthusiastic of today's dance troupes.
One of Jesse White's Tumblers soars above the pavement. White, a Chicago Democrat, is Illinos' Secretary of State.
These six young women are proud to be Americans.
We are all Americans now, even the flag detail from Lincoln-Way Central High School in New Lenox. Its predecessor school was a hated rival when I attended Carl Sandburg High School in Orland Park. They posed for a picture shortly before they joined the parade. All is forgiven, Lincoln-Way Central Knights...
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