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Rock Island Will Hold Annual Labor Day Parade

City of Rock Island

Even though many others have been canceled because of the pandemic, Rock Island WILL hold its 37th annual Labor Day Parade on Monday.

More than 120 entries are expected, including 12 bands and drill teams. Marching bands will come from Rock Island, Moline, and Rockridge high schools, plus St. Ambrose University.

The parade will start at 9:30 am near Washington Junior High School, at 18th Avenue and 33rd Street. It'll travel west along 18th Avenue, turn south at 24th Street, then west on 25th Avenue, and end at Rock Island High School.

The city held the first Labor Day parade in 1985 as part of Rock Island’s Sesquicentennial (150th Birthday) Celebration.

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A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.