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Chicago Pride Parade lineup released
2016-06-22

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Officials at Pride Chicago released this official lineup for the 47th annual Chicago Pride Parade, Sunday, June 26, starting at Noon at Montrose and Broadway.

Organizations and local & national businesses featuring their LGBT employee groups (in parentheses):

1 Intro—Banner/Orlando Photos ( a tribute to the 49 killed in Orlando LGBT bar Pulse, sponsored by Windy City Times and ChicagoPride.com )/Color Guard ( Scouts for Equality )/Grand Marshal Monica Raymund with Clandestina — cars/walkers

2 Friends of the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame - float/car/walkers

3 Puerto Rican Cultural Center — Vida/SIDA — float/walkers

4 La Casa Norte w/Bank of America LGBT Pride Chicago group — trolley/walkers

5 Nettelhorst School — golf cart/walkers

6 Chicago Waldorf School — bus/walkers

7 Near North Montessori School — bus/walkers

8 Erie Family Health Center - walkers

9 American Veterans for Equal Rights/Jesse Brown VA Medical Center —car/walkers

10 Gay, Lesbian and Supporting Sailors ( G.L.A.S.S. ) — walkers

11 Lakeside Pride Music Ensembles — band w/van

12 Lesbian Gay Police Association/GOAL Chicago-float & police superintendent rep - car

13 Folia Brasil — walkers

14 Entry lines up on Sheridan: Organized Chaos Chicago — motorcycles w/Jeep

15 Elected Officials and candidates for elective office — walkers

16 Entry lines up on Sheridan: Bikes and Mics - motorcycles

17 ABC7 Chicago — float

18 Chicago Teachers Union, Local 1 — float/walkers

19 Chicago Black Gay Men's Caucus — car/walkers

20 Equality Illinois/Coca Cola Company — float/walkers

21 Uber Technologies — float/walkers

22 Trevor Project - walkers

23 Angles Pride Youth Program ( formerly LINKS ) — walkers

24 City Colleges of Chicago — float/walkers

25 Lambda Legal & Salesforce — float/walkers

26 UCAN — truck/walkers

27 Balloons by Tommy, LLC — bus/walkers

28 BP Products North America ( Pride Business Resource Group ) — bus/walkers

29 Chicago Gender Society & ChiChapter — float

30 Heels & Hardhats Contracting & Chicago Area Construction Trade Unions - truck

31 Chicago Gay Hockey Association — SUV/walkers

32 Chicago Dragons Rugby Football Team — walkers

33 Center on Halsted — float/walkers

34 AARP — trolley

35 Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce — float/walkers

36 MB Financial Bank — trolley/walkers

37 LGBT Chamber of Commerce of IL — trolley

38 PAWS Chicago — float/walkers

39 Windy City Cowboys — pickup truck/walkers

40 Hyatt Hotels Corporation ( HyPride Business Resource Group ) — float/walkers

41 R.O.T.C. ( Righteously OUTrageous Twirling Corps ) — pickup truck/walkers

42 Comcast Cable Communication ( Out Chicago ) & NBC Universal — double decker bus/walkers

43 Telemundo Chicago — float/walkers

44 Chicago Spirit Brigade with Youth Outlook — SUV/walkers

45 Howard Brown Health, Chicago House, TPAN/Ride for AIDS/Affinity Community Services — float/walkers

46 PFLAG Council of Northern Illinois; Johnson & Johnson — trailer/walkers

47 Navigant ( LGBTA employee resource group ) — float/walkers

48 Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center — trolley/walkers

49 Sidetrack — float/walkers

50 AIDS Healthcare Foundation/South Side Help Center — bus/walkers

51 WGN Television — float/walkers

52 WGN Radio with Jewel Foods — float/walkers

53 Asians & Friends Chicago — float/walkers

54 LEAGUE at AT&T Chicago Chapter — float/walkers

55 Univision Chicago — float/walkers

56 Chicago Coalition of Welcoming Churches — van/walkers

57 Unity in Chicago — trolley/walkers

58 Episcopal Diocese of Chicago — vehicle/walkers

59 Dignity/Chicago — Jeep/walkers

60 A Church 4 Me MCC — flatbed/walkers

61 Congregation Or Chadash & Am Kesaet of Temple Sholom - float/walkers

62 Beth Hillel Congregation Bnai Emunah — SUV/walkers

63 Anti-Defamation League & Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest ( Consulate of Israel ) — float/walkers

64 Elmhurst College — van/walkers

65 Nike ( LGBT & Friends Employee Network ) & OutSports ( Be True Out Sports )-walkers

66 Athletic Alliance of Chicago — float/walkers

67 Chicago Smelts Swim Team — float/walkers

68 Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association — float

69 Grab Magazine — float

70 Human Rights Campaign — vehicle/walkers

71 Wells Fargo & Co ( Pride Chicago Team ) & Chicago Gay Men's Chorus-float/walkers

72 Chicago Boyz — double decker bus

73 Robert Jeffrey Hair Studio — float

74 Chicago Cubs — float

75 OUT CHICAGO/@ Properties — float/walkers

76 KPMG LLP ( pride@kpmg ) — trolley/walkers

77 PepsiCo ( EQUAL ) — double decker bus

78 Roscoe's Tavern — flatbed

79 Chicago Fire Soccer Club & Section 8 Chicago NFP — firetruck/walkers

80 Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center — float

81 BMO Harris Bank ( LGBT Employee Group ) & Chicago Bulls — float/walkers

82 Rush Pride/Rush University — float/walkers

83 Presence Saint Joseph Hospital — trolley

84 Alcala's Western Wear/Bisexual Queer Alliance Chicago — float/walkers

85 Chicago Northside Toyota — trolley

86 Orbitz — Jeep/walkers

87 National Gay Pilots Association — flatbed/walkers

88 PRIDE EBRG American Airlines — golf cart mini plane/walkers

89 Boeing Company ( BEAGLES Chicago ) — pickup truck/walkers

90 United Airlines ( EQUAL ) — truck/walkers

91 Rainbow Special Interest Group of Chicago Area Mensa — vehicle/walkers

92 WXRT ( 93XRT ) & Four Seasons Heating & Cooling — float/walkers

93 Trojan — float/walkers

94 LA Tan — float/walkers

95 Lurie Children's Hospital — walkers

96 Flaggots Ohio — SUV/walkers

97 WCIU, The U — double decker bus

98 I Heart Media-WKSC 103.5 KISS FM & Redd's Apple Ale — float

99 Purdue University LGBTQ+ Student Alliance - walkers

100 Chicago Leather Pride — truck/walkers

101 Foreskin Pride — SUV/walkers

102 Hell in a Handbag Productions — flatbed/walkers

103 Phoenix Bar & Nightclub — float

104 DePaul University — walkers

105 Gay Liberation Network — pickup truck/walkers

106 Chicago NOW — car/walkers

107 About Face Theatre - walkers

108 Fox 32 Chicago — float/walkers

109 Thousand Waves Martial Arts & Self Defense Center NFP — walkers

110 Fantasy Nightclub — float/walkers

111 Stages Music Hall aka Smart Bar — float/walkers

112 SEIU Illinois Council — float

113 Civis Analytics — walkers

114 Broadway In Chicago — float/walkers

115 McGrath Lexus of Chicago — float/walkers

116 Mercy for Animals — SUV/walkers

117 Local 881 United Food and Commercial Workers — float/walkers

118 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois — float/walkers

119 Accenture and Avanade ( LGBT groups ) — double decker bus/walkers

120 Astellas US LLC — float/walkers

121 Northrop Grumman Corp ( Pride in Diversity Alliance [PrIDA] )—trolley/walkers

122 United Way of Metropolitan Chicago — float/walkers

123 Walgreens — pickup truck/walkers

124 Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. ( Take Pride ) — float/walkers

125 Aon Plc/Aon Service Corporation - walkers

126 Thresholds — float/walkers

127 LinkedIn ( Out@in ) — SUV/walkers

128 UNITEHERE Local 1 — float/walkers

129 Lakeshore Recycling Systems — truck/walkers

130 FCB Chicago — float/walkers

131 Baxter Healthcare Corporation ( Baxter Equality Network ) — trolley/walkers

132 ReMarked Salon/Concept Effects - trolley

133 JPMorgan Chase ( Pride Chicago ) — float/walkers

134 Lakeshore Beverage — car/walkers

135 Sears Holding Corporation ( PRIDE ) — float/walkers

136 Starbucks ( Pride Alliance ) — Range Rover/walkers

137 Allstate Insurance Co. ( PRIDE Employee Resource Group ) — float/walkers

138 Gerber Collision & Glass — van/walkers

139 Deloitte LLP ( Deloitte Chicago Inclusion Council ) — float/walkers

140 Siemens Corporation ( Siemens Pride ) — trolley/walkers

141 Mars "Pride" Team — float/walkers

142 Discover Financial Services — trolley/walkers

143 Chicago Athletic Clubs — float/walkers

144 Bloomingdale's - walkers

145 Thompson Chicago hotel — float/walkers

146 Chicago Apartment Finders Leasing Division of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage—car/walkers

147 Tyson Foods, Inc. ( Tyson Pride Network ) — extended float/walkers

148 Marriott International ( ONE ) - walkers

149 Groupon — float/walkers

150 Tesla Motors — car/walkers

151 JLL — float/walkers

152 TD Ameritrade — pickup truck/walkers

153 Tree House Humane Society and Heal Veterinary Clinic — float/walkers

154 Gap Inc. ( Gap GEAR-Gay Employee, Allies & Resources ) - walkers

155 CME Group, Inc. ( PRIDE ) — float/walkers

156 W.W. Grainger, Inc. ( Equality Alliance Business Resource Group ) — SUV/walkers

157 Fitness Formula Clubs — flatbed/walkers

158 Constellation Brands — double decker bus

159 Pandora Internet Radio — Chicago Office ( Chicago Pride ) — truck/walkers

160 ComEd — Bucket truck/walkers


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