An estimated 5,000 individuals attended the annual Vacation within the Park and Parade on Saturday in downtown Glenview.
Many attendees wore heavy winter gear in opposition to the 26-degree chilly, however some couldn’t resist sporting vacation bulb necklaces, festive headbands and the like.
The parade started within the parking zone of Our Girl of Perpetual Assist Church and moved west on Glenview Street and north on Harlem Avenue to Jackman Park the place a celebration awaited. The parade was held up briefly by a prepare.
In Jackman Park, attendees might take pleasure in free visits with Santa Claus within the gazebo, in addition to a snow machine.
Meghan Kearney of Glenview, government director of the Glenview Chamber of Commerce, mentioned 38 parade entries participated, together with native companies, non secular and never for revenue organizations. The Glenbrook South Excessive College marching band and poms supplied college satisfaction.
“For 28 years, the Glenview Vacation within the Park and Parade has stuffed downtown with glowing lights, colourful floats, vigorous music and infinite cheer, a magical celebration that brings our neighborhood collectively in vacation pleasure,” Kearney mentioned.
The Glenview Public Library had a parade entry with quite a few group members.
“I believe it’s actually essential for a library to be a part of the neighborhood and an important a part of the neighborhood,” mentioned Linda Sawyer of Glenview, the library’s deputy director of library providers.
Glenview Village President Michael Jenny walked the parade route, greeting spectators.
“We actually take pleasure in popping out this time of 12 months for the official kickoff of the vacation season in Glenview to have a good time what all of us have in widespread, and that’s assist for our communities, assist for our household and associates, and should you can, to buy native and assist all the companies right here in Glenview that work so exhausting to make our neighborhood higher all year long,” Jenny instructed Pioneer Press.
Cook dinner County Commissioner Scott Britton (14th District) of Glenview was additionally amongst elected officers collaborating, and has been selling the Cook dinner County United In opposition to Hate initiative, “simply to attempt to decrease the temperature and to say, ‘All of us simply have to take a step, perceive that we’re all on this collectively,’ and attempt to emphasize our unity versus our division, which I believe, significantly at the moment of 12 months, it’s a pleasant message to try to get out,” he mentioned.
Santa Claus rode in a Glenview vacation gentle adorned pink hearth engine. For the vacations, Santa hoped for, “endurance, love and understanding,” he mentioned to Pioneer Press.
One other message of peace got here from the strolling nativity scene by Our Girl of Perpetual Assist Church. The OLPH group walked with a banner which learn, “We Await the Wonders of His Love,” and handed out Christmas program and mass schedule playing cards together with parade sweet.
Rev. Patrick Kizza, OLPH affiliate pastor, mentioned, “You will need to be concerned in the neighborhood parade as a result of a church is a neighborhood itself.”
On the holidays and past for all, “I hope for love,” Kizza mentioned. “On daily basis, love is the whole lot.
“You can’t be form once you don’t have love, so to me, one of the best is love,” Kizza mentioned.
“We’re what now we have due to love of others.”
