Born from Chicago Defender founder Robert S. Abbott’s vision for uplifting Black youth, Bud Billiken grew from the newspaper’s children’s club into a parade in 1929. Emerging during the Great Migration, the tradition gave Black children a place to shine through music and performance while enc ouraging education and preparing them for the return to school. […] The post For 97 years, the Bud Billiken Parade has shown up for Chicago youth appeared first on Chicago Reader. ...read more read less