The parade will step off at 11 a.m. at Grace Street and Broadway and continue south along Broadway, then south on Halsted Street, east along Belmont Avenue to Broadway, then south to Diversey Parkway and east to Cannon Drive.
Residents, attendees and participants should anticipate street closures as early as 7:30 a.m. for participant staging areas and parade route closures beginning as early as 8:30 a.m., or as the crowd dictates for safety issues, including Irving Park Road and Wellington Avenue 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.
Pedestrian crossings are located at: Addison at Halsted, Cornelia Street at Halsted, Buckingham Place at Halsted, Briar Place at Broadway and Wellington at Broadway.
Parking restrictions in the area, which will be in effect and strictly enforced, will begin at 2 a.m. Sunday for the assembly area at Sheridan and Broadway and the parade route. Call 311 to located towed vehicles.
Cooling buses, if needed, will be available at Addison west of Halsted, Roscoe west of Halsted, Belmont east of Broadway, Wilton Avenue north of Belmont, Waveland between Broadway and Halsted and Belmont westbound between Halsted and Clark Street.
Drones without Federal Aviation Administration waivers will not be allowed in the area.
The 2026 theme is "Free to be Proud."
Organizers say the theme affirms "that the freedom to live openly, love authentically, and exist safely is neither abstract nor guaranteed."
Tracy Baim, Mona Noriega, Evette Cardona and The Alliance of Illinois Judges were announced as the 2026 community grand marshals.
Visit https://pridechicago.org/ for more information.
ABC7 Chicago will air and stream the parade from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday.