More than 75 units take part as the city salutes Independence Day.
Units make their way along the parade route Thursday during the annual Fourth of July parade in downtown Aurora. Brittany Reier of Aurora has made a habit of coming to Aurora’s annual Fourth of July parade, something she said she has done “every year since I was little.”
More than 75 units were scheduled to participate in the parade, a number that Clayton Muhammad, chief communications and equity officer for the city of Aurora, said made this year’s event even bigger than the parade held weeks ago on Memorial Day in the city. “We’re looking forward to their coming and their energy and we have some new units coming this year,” Muhammad said before the start of the parade. “There will be some new groups dancing and this will be just a wonderful way to celebrate America’s birthday.”
The sidewalks along the parade route were jammed with spectators as the event kicked off promptly at 10 a.m. A police squad car, followed by the first wave of marchers and flag bearers, made its way along Broadway as spectators arriving late tried to get a view of the procession. “This, for me, is about tradition and patriotism and my boys have been in the parade for a good 16 years. They are in the American Legion Band and the color guard and now my grandkids are carrying the banner for the American Legion Band,” he said. “We’ve been coming to watch them over the years.”
“My whole life I came to watch him in this parade and while he’s passed on now his grandsons and great-grandchildren are carrying on a tradition,” she said.
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