The 4th of July is a low key event around here. We go to the town parade (which consists mostly of politicians in convertibles as well as various businesses) and enjoy the abbreviated high school marching band (most of the musicians are gone for the summer), the Shriner bagpipers, etc... There's always a children's parade at the beginning where brightly decorated bicycles and children move in a pack over the parade route- safely out of the way before the parade proper begins.
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Later that week, after seeing the John Singer Sargent show at the Art Institute, a little cool-off in Millenium Park.
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