Pride South Side returned for its eight annual festival Sunday on the city's South Side, celebrating the LGBTQ+ community.
Pride celebrations continued in Downers Grove on Saturday despite recent debate and meetings across the village about hosting the event.
One local woman contributes to the veteran and gay communities.
In the months leading into Pride Month, a group of Palatine residents rallied to fly the Pride flag but hit a roadblock.
A community debate happened over Pride Month in Downers Grove and whether it should continue.
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation into 36 Illinois school districts, including several in the Chicago suburbs, over whether schools taught lessons on sexual orientation and gender ideology.