Nicknamed “The Bud,” the parade has been a back-to-school celebration and showcase for Chicago’s talented young people since 1929. For four generations, the Sengstacke family has organized what it says is the largest African American parade in the United States and the second largest parade in the United States after the Rose Parade. Hundreds of thousands of spectators and generations of .
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The film being projected nightly through Sept. 7 on the mammoth Chicago River-facing facade of the Merchandise Mart centers on the largest and longest-running African American parade in the United States.