On Saturday, crowds gathered along the Loop for the yearly river-dyeing rite, which was cancelled in 2020 and held without many in attendance during a surge in coronavirus cases in last year. Since 1962, Chicago has died the river green in honor of the Emerald Isle.
The Windy City boasts around 204,000 people, or 7.5 percent of the city's population, that claim Irish ancestry today. Members of the Plumbers Union Local 130 dyed the Chicago River green with a boat that poured the coloring into the water on Saturday in preparation for St. Patrick's Day celebrations coming up on Thursday. Most party-goers went maskless as they stood in lines wrapped around the block outside River North bars, with revelers bundled up to celebrate despite the mid-March cold front.
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