ABC7 Chicago to host live broadcast of 2025 Pride Parade with Tanja Babich, Hosea Sanders, and Jason Knowles

CHICAGO (WLS) — ABC7 Chicago is set to commemorate the 54th annual Chicago Pride Parade by airing a two-hour live broadcast of the parade on Sunday, June 29, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

ABC7’s Tanja Babich and Hosea Sanders will host the Chicago Pride Parade broadcast with Jason Knowles, capturing all the action live from the street.

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Dedicated LGBTQ+ community advocates such as Cody LaGrow, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, and Kim Hunt, a member of the LGBT Hall of Fame and Senior Director of AIDS Initiative Chicago, will be part of the celebration.

The parade will also exclusively stream on ABC7’s Connected TV Apps on Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Roku and Hulu.

The parade will commence at Sheridan Road and Broadway (with the viewing starting at Grace Street and Broadway), then proceed along the 2-mile route by heading south on Broadway, followed by a turn south on Halsted Street, continuing east on Belmont Avenue, then back south on Broadway, and finally turning east on Diversey Parkway towards Cannon Drive.

Street closures could come as early as 7:30 a.m. Sunday for participant staging areas, and parade route closures could begin as early as 8:30 a.m., or as the crowd dictates for safety issues, including Irving Park Road and Wellington Street at Broadway and Addison Street, Grace, and Roscoe Street at Halsted. Streets are expected to fully reopen by 4 p.m. or when deemed safe to do so, officials said Thursday.

Safely cross the event at the following locations:

– Addison/Halsted

– Cornelia Avenue/Halsted

– Buckingham Place/Halsted

– Briar Avenue/Broadway

– Wellington/Broadway

Parking restrictions in the area will begin at 2 a.m. Sunday morning for the assembly area at Sheridan and Broadway and the parade route, Chicago officials said.

Cooling buses, if needed, will be available at the following locations:

– Addison west of Halsted

– Roscoe east of Halsted

– Belmont east of Broadway

– Wilton Street north of Belmont

– Waveland Avenue between Broadway and Halsted

– Belmont westbound between Halsted and Clark Street

There will be medical tents along the route, as well, and the parade route will be filled with markers to help quickly identify location if there is an emergency.

Both CTA and Metra are providing additional service for the parade.