Saturday, December 24, 2011

Chicago Pride organizers agree to move parade time

9:56 p.m. CST, December 21, 2011

Organizers with Chicago's annual gay pride parade have agreed to a later start time after one of Chicago's oldest Roman Catholic churches objected to a newly-proposed route they claimed would block access to Sunday Masses.

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church leaders said the new route ? which would go by the church for the first time ? would draw massive crowds and block the church's entrance.

The parade attracted 800,000 people last year. It's held the last Sunday in June and usually starts in the morning.

In a statement late Wednesday, parade organizer Richard Pfeiffer said a noon start will accommodate services

A new route was proposed this year following longstanding concerns about crowds, drinking and transportation access. Our Lady officials circulated petitions calling to change the route again.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChicagoBreakingNews/~3/0lLz2UHAmPA/chi-chicago-pride-organizers-agree-to-move-parade-time-20111221,0,241619.story

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