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Posted: Thursday, 09 April 2009 4:10PM
South Side Irish Parade alive in Evergreen Park?
Steve Miller Reporting
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CHICAGO (WBBM) -- There had been some hope of keeping the South Side Irish Parade alive in Evergreen Park next year - but now Evergreen Park has said no.
The death knell for the South Side Irish Parade sounded a couple of weeks ago when organizers decided not to bring it back next year in Chicago - after a 31-year history.
Then Evergreen Park offered a potential refuge.
But after getting 12-hundred emails and other responses, Evergreen Park Mayor James Sexton has now declared the idea dead in his village.
"They spoke very loud and clear that they did not want us to host this particular event in 2010."
Sexton says 48 percent were for the parade; 52 percent were against it.
He says residents said they did not want the parade for a variety of reasons: traffic, people, costs.
Sexton says cost estimates ranged from $70,000 to $80,000.
Now what does he think will happen to the South Side Irish Parade?
"Well, I wouldn't know. We'll throw it back in the lap of the South Side St. Patrick's Day committee and see if they can resurrect it or what they might want to do with it."
Sexton says Evergreen Park will concentrate on its Independence Day parade, and he invited people to join the festivities.
"But there will be no shenanigans," Mayor Sexton warned.
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