Mexican Independence Day Celebration Spawns Street Closures in Chicago

People celebrating Grito de Delores on a eve of Mexican Independence day caused military to tighten streets in downtown Chicago, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020.

A train of cars reportedly convened on Columbus Drive during approximately 10:48 p.m. CT. Hundreds of people rode around in their vehicles, honking their horns, and proudly displaying a Mexican flag. Pedestrians cheered from a street,  some toting Mexican paraphernalia. Other flitting vehicles exchanged honks while people sat on their automobile doors and peered by their sunroofs in jubilee of Mexican Independence Day.

A twitter from Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications educated motorists to take an swap track due to a occasion.  Streets were sealed nearby Michigan Ave. and Wacker Drive. Street closings went as distant as Little Village, and 26th Street was sealed between Sacramento and Kedzie Avenues.

One participant, Edgar Hernandez, voiced his disappointment for a travel closures. Hernandez is a lifelong Little Village proprietor and settled he participates each year in a Mexican Independence Day festivities though pronounced this was a initial time military blocked a streets.

He settled it was formidable to collect adult his daughter given of a travel closures. “Not everybody is doing this; some people are only perplexing to get home,” pronounced Hernandez.

History of Grito de Dolores

Hernandez indicated they will lapse to a streets on Sep 16 to continue their jubilee of Mexican Independence Day.

According to Hernandez, “We do this each year — it’s like a tradition — we go downtown, accommodate adult on Pulaski or wherever we accommodate up, and afterwards everybody only leaves,” Hernandez said. “We’re only cruising, we don’t feel like we’re adult to no good. We’re only literally cruising, beeping, ‘Viva Mexico,’ and that’s it.”

Grito de Delores (Cry of Delores) is distinguished on a eve of Mexican Independence Day. The Grito de Dolores, instituted by Catholic clergyman Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, is a call to arms that sparked Mexico’s fight for Independence from Spain in 1810.

In Mexico, on a eve of Mexican Independence Day, a President of Mexico rings a bell Father Costilla rang scarcely 200 years ago. He recites a “Cry of Delores” debate in front of half a million people. The eventuality is promote live to millions in Mexico on TV and radio.

Mexico’s Independence on Sept. 16, 1810, finished 300 years of Spanish rule. This useful arise has been distinguished annually ever since.

On Aug. 24, 1821, Mexico was announced an eccentric country.

Some people upset Cinco de Mayo with Mexican Independence Day. Cinco de Mayo celebrates a feat of a outnumbered Mexican army defeating a French company in 1862.

Written by Sheree Bynum
Edited by Cathy Milne-Ware

Sources:

Chicago Sun-Times: City closes streets in downtown, Little Village amid Mexican Independence Day celebrations; Sam Kelly and Carly Behm

National Today: Mexican Independence Day – Sep 16, 2020

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