chicago sox parade today!
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- vavaboom
im going!
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The White Sox are known for speed, but for today's celebration, they're going to take their time.
The team will take off in double-decker buses from U.S. Cellular Field at 35th and Veeck and wind its way through the neighborhoods of Bridgeport, Bronzeville, Chinatown, Pilsen, Greektown and the area around the University of Illinois-Chicago to the Board of Trade Building at La Salle and Jackson.
A parade starting at Jackson will roll north on La Salle to Wacker starting at noon, with the players being showered with ticker tape, said James Law, executive director of the Mayor's Office of Special Events. (The ''ticker tape'' actually will be shredded Chicago Sun-Times newsprint.)
A victory rally is scheduled to begin around 12:45 p.m at Wacker and La Salle. Likely to speak are various players, manager Ozzie Guillen, general manager Ken Williams, Mayor Daley and U.S. Sen. Barack Obama.
- mg330
Dude, it's RIGHT OUTSIDE MY BUILDING.
I'm at the corner of LaSalle and Madison, on the 12th floor, we have two floors and corner office views looking up and down LaSalle.
Hot!!!!
- todelete__20
can you take pics for me?
i can't go but i'll be hanging out with a player or two tonight.
:(
- mg330
- mg330
It was pretty wild out there!
Only had to walk about 10 steps from the front of our building. People were throwing toilet paper out of the windows of some buildings, it's all hung on scaffolds and stuff.
- flavorful0
Sweet!
* Waits for the Pirates to win a World Series ... they become the next ChiSox and have to wait a real long time.
- laughingcolors0
Will ferris bueller be there ???
- uberdesigner0
pirates bah
- flavorful0
Will ferris bueller be there ???
laughingcolors
(Oct 28 05, 10:34)I was in Chicago earlier this year for 2 nites and wanted to do everything he did, because it is a movie that really shaped my life.
(Sad but true.)
But apparently it never appealed to anyone I was with and reluctantly had to get kicked out of about 12 bars for refusing to wear my hat straight.
But I did see the Buccos beat the Cubbies in the first ever baseball game that I saw while it was snowing.
- JazX0
Hooray!
- mg330
What's crazy about Ferris Bueller is that the movie is so not real-time like you think it is. They go from downtown to a Cubs game in like no time at all.
- hick0
Wouldn't you know it, just when I leave town, something like this happens. I used to work at LaSalle and Van Buren
- todelete__20
i'm streaming the video live via wgn.
i can't focus i'm so excited.
- flavorful0
Yea didn't mean to hijack the thread, but that movie consumed my persona for quite some time.
I only wish I could feel the way you feel kOna and other ChiSox fans!
I feel like a Braves fans with my Yankees and a moron with my Buccos, haha.
- hick0
RE: WGN
Man, there's a lotta folk out on the street
- vavaboom0
i just got back from the parade it was total craziness! everyone at work is talking about boring shit. they are all so lame ugh! Its friday..halloween...and theres a sox parade. wish i could go home early