Southside Irish Parade
Bringing back an old favorite:
Any good stories from the parade? Did the "threat" of zero tolerance that was suggested in the comments section actually materialize or was it just the standard silliness as in years past?
Channel 2 has a slide show from the parade.
Any good stories from the parade? Did the "threat" of zero tolerance that was suggested in the comments section actually materialize or was it just the standard silliness as in years past?Channel 2 has a slide show from the parade.
Labels: silly people
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
66 Comments:
Where was the SCC float ? You Rock !
anybody know? what we heard, in our part of town, was that...if the Olympics had a category for drinking alcohol in public, together with urinating out in the open, the parade attendees would have been awarded the gold medal right on the spot; but, you know how some folks exaggerate....2,000 people drinking, 20 ticketed..(anyone know?)
Stories of the South-side Irish Parade?
There was lots of drunks? An orderly crowd for the most part. A few tune-ups? maybe?
But there wasnt:
A tent set up by the CPD for lost children.
A 6 hour parade.
aww hell just add all the things that the bud biliken is and you have it
Dammmmmm that was subtle.
If you dont see it cleck on the pic
and there she goes again showing up at the st patty's day parade..long time no see
It was worse woking there then it is at bud biliken. It's out of control, fights everywhere after the parade. No arrests for fighting were made(DC, Mob action) any other parade arrests would have been made.
the drunk parade! was daley there? of course not! will he be at ST JUDE's absolutely not! will eddie burke be at ST JUDES hawking his book? probably not even though burke and daley have mulit-million in just the campaign funds alone not counting what is hidden burke needs more!
Men in dresses? Ho! Ho! Is this not the European version of a gay pride parade?
In the pic, who's that hottie standing next to the shamrock in the background?
Jow about 500.000 people gathering and not one lost child!!! I love it!
The parade lasted 2:20 minutes, no lost kids, no Obama, no problems.
You are a true Artist.....That was fr^%(ing GREAT.....Let the fun begin....
ok, could we puleeeze end this charade of honoring our Irish heritage. This is nothing more than outsiders trashing our neighborhood.
The State Police set up a tracffic check on 111th in Oak lawn to catch people going home from the parade.
I didn't see them do that at the Bud Bilikin parade/riot.
I wonder why not?
HA HA HA. How many people marched with the FOP? I think it was under 10. Sad, sad sad.
monkey has missed her picture greatly. he spends a lot of time in the bathroom whenever you post one. he or she says to thank you jedi master.
Excellent
I was just at breakfast with my wife, about twenty revelers were in there, younger college types. They left the waitress, a good gal who is pro police, a hundred dollar tip, and said goodbye to everyone on the way out. True ladies and gentleman. I feel sorry for people who feel it necessary to piss on the Irish, and to them I say "Trow me down the stairs my shoes, I go by Archer to get da papers".
Some asshat opened up the drivers side door of Bt 1572 (wagon) while it was parked and unattended and proceeded to piss all over the drivers seat, while the crowd egged him on. I did not observe it but a friend told me.
Didn't make it onto the parade route, but was certainly "near" the parade in a bar, if that counts.
Anyone else headed to march in Savannah, GA this weekend? A handful of us will be marching again and anyone wanting to meet up, you're more than welcome to drop me a line. If you have not been to Savannah on St. Patrick's Day - well, lets just say that you need to do it once before you die. The ladies love a Chicago man in his blues.
Ban the parade. It's like a party that should have been over hours ago and the guest are drunk and won't leave.
Irish pride my arse. It's run it's course. End it now.
Are all these people missing the HITNEY in the picture?
ive never missed a southside irish parade----but this was my first year going to and coming home from the parade sober (i had my kids with me). the only problems were the drunk underage kids and the young children with no parental supervision. but as a cop who's work the gay, bud billikin, puerto rican fests, etc etc this was nothing compared to the other ethnic parades. no 10-1's, no lost kids, no shots fired etc etc but as usual the police try to clamp down on the drinking at the white irish parade iknow for a fact that if cpd clamped down on any black or mexican festivity there were be fights with the police, protests, etc etc
That guy in the picture; isnt that FITZ from 025? If so he was a nice guy, and I hope he's doing fine. He always represented the Irish well!!!!
What is the difference between the southside irish parade and the bud bilken parade? ABOUT 11 MILES
I live a few blocks from the parade. I have not seen so many drunk ignorant people in my life. Two idiots tried to stand on my lawn sign. I think the purpose of this parade has been lost. How about they just go to the big one down town and tear up Mayor Daley's neighborhood and get out of mine.
That is hilarious!! You transposed that picture of the sergeant by the airplane into the parade. You are a creative retard in a good way!
Why make everything about race and then go to roll call and look at each other and say, lets work together and make sure you back my hood wearing ass up? What does the Bud Billiken Parade have to do with the Irish Parade, nothing. Keep it that way.
Believe it or not, it is ok for people to celebrate the way they want for whatever they may believe in. Our department had more police at that parade than we had roaming the streets throughout the entire city. Why is that I wonder.
Are all these people missing the HITNEY in the picture?
no, it's just that it's old
hey, where was the lost kids tent?
This parade has now been named "Bud Billiken South". There is no purpose to this parade. The Breast cancer walkers, little Irish Dancers & the Marching Band were the only nice part about it. Everyone else in the parade should have stayed home. Nothing special. Bunch of drunks staggering around, puking, spilling beer, wrestling in the mud, people fighting, going into other peoples parties to try to get free food/drink. It sucked for anyone that worked it. No breaks, no lunch.
I certainly will make sure I'm on furlough so I don't have to work this parade ... EVER!
I really hope the pictures of the really stupid police officers drinking beer in full uniform at the parade don't show up on someone's web site......do the police drink at Bud Biliken parade also???????
No, we didn't miss Hitney in the pic. Just bummed out because she's wearing a hat. I'm still trying to still my hair in full Hitney fashion; Dippity Doo and Aqua Net but can't seem to get the same height.
Oh and CW was out there having officers write ANOV's.
Why make everything about race and then go to roll call and look at each other and say, lets work together and make sure you back my hood wearing ass up? What does the Bud Billiken Parade have to do with the Irish Parade, nothing. Keep it that way.
Believe it or not, it is ok for people to celebrate the way they want for whatever they may believe in. Our department had more police at that parade than we had roaming the streets throughout the entire city. Why is that I wonder.
As most of us know, the Bud Billiken parade is another parade that is way too big and gets out of control. It's a comparison of parades, not races. Get over it.
It is certainly ok for people to celebrate their "day" in a respectful manner ... BUT it is not ok for people to get drunk out in public, stagger down the street, fall down in the street, spill beer on people, throw bottles at passing cars, disrespect people, batter someone, damage property, trespass on other peoples land, kick over full garbage cans, litter, piss in the street, puke by the frickin swingset for some kid to step in, drive home drunk... Do I Need To List More??? That is not ok. It is not a free day to do whatever the F* you want to do. If someone wants to act that way, let them do it at their house to their own property.
If you think it is ok, then there's definitely something wrong with you.
7:53 PM
Damn! Sounds like a typical weeknight on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin.
ON WISCONSIN! GO BADGERS!
FUCK 'EM, BUCKY!
Hell Irish kids are to drunk to get lost, they just lay there in a heap until their parents sober up
TO 3/12/07 6:26PM
Were they trying to stand on your lawn OR 4sale sign?
I live on west 111 st, came home from mass Sunday morning with my family to the sight of numerous underage-looking male and femaleidiots on foot, with red plastic beer cups, pissing in my bushes and along my fence. Great job 22 nd District. I guess I should have known not to go out to church with my family on a Sunday morning. Not a cop in sight by Mt. Greenwood park. Thanks, Ass-Clowns.
hey, why not have the parade honor the pervert child-molester priests, and crooked politicians, right along with the drunken fools, and wrap it up all at once. Irish pride my ARSE. What an embarrassment.
No arrests because the majority of the people there are cops, cops kids, politicians and politicians kids. I think we as police have been directed to what, give them a pass.
How could we have that many people that are described on this website as making that much of a mess, acting a drunken fool, pissing in a squad car and terrorizing innocent people in their neighboirhood, and not one person being arrested!
As I gently explained to a beautiful young lady how I loved to see her leaving, she told me in her moment of joy that a Lt. in 022 working the 2nd watch two days before the parade said if Deputy Chief Skahill and Deputy Superintendent Charlie Williams had one person arrested, they would both be 690 on midnights. Damn, that is a lot of nerve, but hey, he got away with it and noone was arrested. Not even pissy boy!
My wife and daughter went. I thought otherwise and learned it would be as I thought. They were at 104th by the County Fair and some bank. Broken bottles on the street and umpteen beer cans strewn everywhere. Teens doing their darndest to buy beer from everyone. A friend is a Metra Officer. Metra had put an extra train or two on to go downtown after it was over. Numerous fights on the train. Who was in overall command? Don't blame the blue shirts, they just do what they are told. Where was Ginger and the planners?
Simply disgraceful. When I was a younger cop, I used to have to work St. Paddy's day on Division St. with my tact team. I don't care what other parades I've worked over the past 20 years, nothing compares to the alcoholic madness of the St. Paddy's day
celebrations here in Chi. Thank God I no longer have to venture out and deal with legions of alcoholics, along with their kids.
Irish Pride? Hah! Irish ASS!!
What the hell was that tattoo place about. A couple of stoners carring a sign for their tattoo shop. The parade has gone down hill.
Next week at the original St. Patty's parade, we will, once again assist our brothers from the NYPD who show up annually to march.
Welcome New Yawk brothers!
Stay safe...welcome to your second home away from home!
Let Us know if we can assist you in any way.
Brothers in CPD, honor and respect our Thin Blue Line
OV
Big fight 107 Maplewood, complete lack of control by Garrity and the
A2 Chief Scahill. Just a disgrace, the neighborhood is to small the tolerance would not be accepted at Bud, De mayo or HUmbolt Park. Disgraceful, enforcement needed to return it to a family gathering.
I for one am sick and tired of the parade. I am American by birth and Irish by ancestry. I made the big mistake of taking the kids to see the (Scottish)bagpipes and the floats. What I got instead was large groups of twenty-somethings walking along 103rd St. hooting and hollering while passing a fat blunt around. My blood was boiling and I was ashamed these "white trash" hillbillies think they are properly celebrating St.Patrick's Day. The other part of the parade that we can do without are the teens who seem to think that this is the event that marks their right of passage to become drunk and obnoxious.
True enough we "Irish" don't have the problems that Bud Biliken has but we can hardly hold our heads high with the displays of drunkenness, public urination, both male and female, and disorderly conduct on the whole from the west side of Western.
Side note: The bagpipes are purely Scottish and are associated with St. Patrick's Day because the Irish that were in the British Army in New York (pre-revolution) were only allowed to celebrate in their British uniforms (Scottish Highlanders Regiment) and the pipes were part of that. And by the way corned beef and cabbage are not Irish cuisine.....Just a wee history lesson
The parade marshalls were a joke.
Just an excuse to look important. Oh and lets bring the work release guys into our neighborhood to clean up. Yeah, great idea. My wife said she looked out the front window and locked the doors when she saw em coming down our block.
If anyone with any power is reading this, STOP THE PARADE NOW. Give me one good reason to have it.
If you're so set or have the need to celebrate your Irish roots, then:
1. Every year there is a downtown St. Pat's parade, in an area that can handle the crowds.
2. There is a Gaelic Festival in Grant Park in Sept. every year in an area that can handle it.
3. There is Gaelic Park out in the south suburbs that is a nice venue to sip some brew and listen to Irish music in a true family setting.
But for God's sake end this parade and stop this nonsense.
As a 19th ward resident who is not Irish nor wants to be, it is time to end this parade.
The Southside White Drunken Trash Parade is always a sight to behold. It is the personification of every Irish stereotype out there.
Move it to Canaryville, where most of these people's relatives originated from.
They don't get drunk and tear up the street at Bud Billiken. They also do not have to have half the police department assigned. Ok, a few kids get lost, Great America has more kids lost by noon than they do during the whole parade. If that is the only thing you can think of, go back to the drawing board.
That parade stands for nothing in anyone's community but a drunken stuper parade and a sorry excuse to paint yourself green, get wasted, through up and brag about how much of a good time they had. Do they even remember the event? Do the attendees even know the purpose of the parade?
And by the way corned beef and cabbage are not Irish cuisine.....Just a wee history lesson
Just boiled potatoes! Haha!
I was peoud to see some po's(I suspect ex-military) snap to attention and salute when our nations flags went by. Don't they teach that in the acadamy anymore? When your in uniform and the flag goes by your supposed to salute people!
The parade lasted 2:20 minutes, no lost kids, no Obama, no problems.
3/12/2007 09:30:00 AM
Don't know where you were but we had approximately 10 lost kids at the command van.
Oh and CW was out there having officers write ANOV's.
3/12/2007 08:27:00 PM
Wrong one that was Skahill
No arrests because the majority of the people there are cops, cops kids, politicians and politicians kids. I think we as police have been directed to what, give them a pass.
How could we have that many people that are described on this website as making that much of a mess, acting a drunken fool, pissing in a squad car and terrorizing innocent people in their neighboirhood, and not one person being arrested!
As I gently explained to a beautiful young lady how I loved to see her leaving, she told me in her moment of joy that a Lt. in 022 working the 2nd watch two days before the parade said if Deputy Chief Skahill and Deputy Superintendent Charlie Williams had one person arrested, they would both be 690 on midnights. Damn, that is a lot of nerve, but hey, he got away with it and noone was arrested. Not even pissy boy!
3/12/2007 10:31:00 PM
don't know where your info came from but we locked up about 40 people that day and my fuc&^%g feet still hurt.
40 arrests yeah right
The Southside White Drunken Trash Parade is always a sight to behold. It is the personification of every Irish stereotype out there.
Move it to Canaryville, where most of these people's relatives originated from.
3/13/2007 08:19:00 AM
Don't blame Canaryville, its your neighbor(s). You know, the Drunk pissing on your flowers or the one sleeping on your grass. You know I am right, cause I pissed on your flowers after I was awaken by the sexy fat bitch getting sick next to me. So if you want to blame someone or place look in the mirror first. NABOR .....
P.S. Born and raised in Mt. Greenwood
yeah. but at midnight in skip's, they are the "REAL POLICE" oh yeah! CPD!
What a bunch of crap.
There's a thing called "quality of life". That's what they have in the burbs. If you call the cops, they show up.
As a resident of MTG and a fan of the parade I have to admit it is totally out of control. The planners need to take a hard look at what the parade has become and make a crucial decision.
My favorite part was walking in the alley behind Leona's and observing at least 200 underage drinkers fighting and pissing on anything that moved. Best part was one of our guys seated atop a dumpster with a big fat cigar in his mouth and a grin on his face.
My suggestion is to start making arrests and close the Western Ave bars for the day. How many ANOV's were issued at the make shift court on 103rd & Western?
Actually, you can't even compare Billiken and SSI parades. I've worked them both in the past, and I've seen far more problems at the St. Pat's parades than anything that has ever cropped up at Billiken's (Billiken's might wind up with more missing kids, but that's about it, and it is a far larger parade than the St. Pat's parades). The drunken nonsense and fighting is just unbelievable.
And the underage drinking/nonsense? Totally unacceptable. Glad to avoid all that BS.
Its funny that everyone who is bitching about the parade now were the same ones who use to do it. When was the last time you saw a GD float, or a float full of gang bangers flashing gang signs at the southside irish parade. Happens every year at bud billiken parade. Dont even get me started on the rican feast.
I USED ALL CAPITALS
I HAVE A PICTURE OF CIGAR/DUMPSTER GUY, ITS OBE OF THE BEST POLICE PHOTOS EVER, SMILE ON HIS FACE, GOOD ATTITUDE, YOU GUYS NEED TO LIFGTRN UP BADLY. THE WHOLE WORLD IS COMING UNHINGED, AND YOU SHIT YOURSELF OVER A STUPID PARADE. P.S. TO DUNPSTER GUY, IM GONNA GIVE YOU A FRAMED COPY OF THE PICTURE, ITS A CLASSIC
They don't get drunk and tear up the street at Bud Billiken. They also do not have to have half the police department assigned. Ok, a few kids get lost, Great America has more kids lost by noon than they do during the whole parade. If that is the only thing you can think of, go back to the drawing board.
Billiken is the WORST detail in the city bar none! They have every tac team in the city detailed there and all the gang teams on standby, as well as SOS and TRU every year. The parade never ends, the floats have people flashing gang signs, passing blunts around, the crowd IS drinking and doing drugs in public view. The party then moves into Washington Park where the festivities really start! it is the official location to drink and do dope out in the open, they storm the stages set up all day long resulting in 10-'1s all day. You will have a few poeple walk into Provident shot from the event and it is the official day to not watch your kids because the police provide that service for free, usually around 4 to 500 or so. yes the South Side Irish Parade has turned into a real drunken fiasco but it is NOTHING like Billiken, you can expect at least 12 to 14 hours that day for sure!
they arrested 18 people. You can look it up on data warehouse. No real enforcement. Not sure what they are afraid of. One year when the d/c had no political connections/aspirations there was a stricter environment and better enforcement. They just need to one year lock up a bunch of people no matter who they are and send a message.
22nd District, what a bunch of DOGS, including their bosses. Homeowners and property owners just expected to accept this shit because of some B.S. political Parade. Saving all my photos of this drunken crap for delivery to the news media, about 3 days before the next SouthSide Irish Parade in 2008. And the politicians think we can control the OLYMPICS? HA-HA
TO THE PERSON THAT SAID THAT THE SS. ST. PAT PARADE WAS WORSE THAN BILLIKEN, YOU MUST BE NUTS, OR A DO NOTHING. I WORK ON THE WEST SIDE AND HAVE BEEN DETAILED TO BOTH PARADES,YES AT THE PATS PARADE THEY DO GET A LITTLE DRUNK, BUT NOTHING LIKE BILLIKENS, I LOCKED UP TWO PEOPLE AT BILLIKENS AND COULD HAVE PROBALLY LOCKED UP MORE. BILLIKENS SUCKS.
<< Home