Washington Park is a 372-acre park between Cottage Grove Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive, located at 5531 S. Martin Luther King Dr. in the Washington Park community area on the South Side of Chica
Pond in Washington Park
Southdown sheep grazing before they were disallowed circa 1920
Lagoon in Washington Park
Washington Park Conservatory
The Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic is an annual parade held since 1929 in Chicago, Illinois. The Bud Billiken Day Parade is the largest African-American parade in the United States. Held annually on t
Washington Park (Chicago park)
…is a social center of the South Side and hosts many festivals in the summer, including Chicago's best organized cricket league and the terminus of the Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic. It is also the host of the annual UniverSoul Circus which comes to the park each fall (its first performance at the park was 1996). The largest 16…
Bud Billiken Logo
A 1926 Bud Billiken comic strip
The Chicago Department of Human Resource float in the 1973 parade. Photo by John H. White.
A Barack Obama float for 2004 U.S. Senate race in the 2004 parade.