Pictures from today's Norwood Park Memorial Day Parade

The annual Norwood Park Memorial Day Parade wound its way through the neighborhood earlier today. The Edison Park American Legion and the American Flag Coalition led the way.

You can't have a parade in Chicago without politicians. Groups for State Senator John Mulroe (D-10) Ald. Mary O'Connor (D-41) represented the Democrats at the front of the parade; groups for County Commissioner Peter Silvestri (17th) and State Rep. Michael McAuliffe (R-20) represented the Republicans at the front of the parade.

Cook County Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Commissioner Frank Avila was further back in the parade, but we'll keep all the politicians together in this post.

But it wouldn't be much of a parade without a grand marshal, motorcycles, marching bands....

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