Pride Month

In its third year, the annual DeKalb Pride Fest and March continues to grow and expand in more ways than one. Downtown DeKalb was filled Thursday with area residents who gathered to proclaim "Love is love."

People enjoy the Woodstock PrideFest Parade on Sunday, June 11, 2023, around the historic Woodstock Square.

Those looking to celebrate Pride Month will find no shortage of ways to do that in Downers Grove.

The free, family friendly festival will run from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. June 17 at Page Park.

In a series of three proclamations this week, Geneva Mayor Kevin Burns declared June as Pride Month, June 2 as Gun Violence Awareness Day and May 20-26 as National Safe Boating Week.

The Chicago Blackhawks will not wear Pride-themed warmup jerseys before Sunday’s Pride Night game against Vancouver because of security concerns involving a Russian law that expands restrictions on activities seen as promoting LGBTQ rights in the country

A fire hydrant painted in the rainbow and transgender flag colors was vandalized by being spray-painted over entirely in white at Kirk Road and East State Street in Geneva.

”Love is love,” read many of the signs hoisted in the air Thursday as dozens came to march in the second annual Pride parade in downtown DeKalb.

The second annual pride event will take place Thursday, June 23, doors open at the Egyptian Theatre at 6 p.m. It will feature a short pride march, and a film viewing.

GENEVA – Geneva hoisted its rainbow flag to recognize June as Pride Month at City Hall with a crowd of about 50 cheering supporters.

History was made Wednesday morning as St. Charles Mayor Lora Vitek raised the first Pride flag in the city's history.

County and state officials marked the beginning of Pride month by hoisting a rainbow flag in front of the Will County Office Building in downtown Joliet.

History will take place Wednesday morning as St. Charles city officials – together with representatives from Out In Fox Valley Inc. along with St. Charles Pride – raise the first Pride flag in the city’s history.

The McHenry County Board voted Tuesday evening to postpone consideration of a flag policy that many board members and residents saw as an attempt to stop the county from flying the gay pride flag.

Jay King of DeKalb is creating a film project, Alphabet Soup, to help show kids that “their future has promise.”