Posted on 08/11/2014 5:51:59 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
The sights and sounds of Saturday’s 85th annual Bud Billiken Parade quickly turned from joy to horror when an 18-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy were shot and wounded while standing in the 4200 block of South King Drive along the parade route.
“Why can’t we just have one day of peace?” paradegoer Sherri Grover shouted to the crowd as police attended to the victims.
“I just ask that the gangbangers stop the violence, please,” Grover said. “This is the one day for our children.”
Witnesses said several babies and a woman in a wheelchair were nearby when the two were shot.
Among those marching in the parade were Gov. Pat Quinn and Bruce Rauner, his Republican challenger on November’s ballot, who was on the street, shaking hands, and had passed the area where the shooting happened about a minute earlier.
“We were walking along the parade route and then suddenly, for whatever reason — we now know it was a shooting,” Rauner spokesman Mike Schrimpf said. “There was a bunch of spectators suddenly running south and away from what was going on. We at the time had no idea what was going on. We just saw a bunch of people running away.”
The parade continued despite the shooting. But many left following the violence.
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I know. I was thinking “oh that will change their behavior!!”
“Can’t we all just get along?”
Who was Bud Billiken and why do they have a parade for him?
Are the first and middle names of the street's namesake the same as the first and last name of a sixteenth-century monk who helped to start the Protestant reformation?
Well he is quite jolly looking, thanks for explaining that!
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