CHICAGO LABOR DAY PARADE & EDDIE FEST@ STEELWORKERS PARKThe 2026 Chicago Labor Day Parade route will tentatively begin at E 112th Street and S Ave F on Chicago’s Southeast Side. The parade route will then head north up S Ewing Avenue to E 106th Street, where parade entries will disband near 3940 E 106th St.
Eddie Fest, formerly known as Friends of Labor Fest, celebrates workers and the Chicago labor movement. Chicago has brought forth some of the greatest labor activists in the world – among them, Ed Sadlowski. Through the work of activists like Sadlowski and others throughout history, Chicago has been the driving force behind changes that have improved the lives of working people across generations. The eight-hour workday and five-day work week were born at Chicago’s Haymarket. The struggle at Chicago’s Pullman factory town gave us the Labor Day holiday we celebrate every September. The seeds of laws like the NLRA and FLSA, and policies that brought about living wages, workplace health and safety, social security, and the benefits people enjoy today were first planted in Chicago. And in 2022, labor went all out to pass the Workers’ Rights Amendment, protecting the right to organize and collectively bargain in Illinois, preventing the threat of so-called Right-to-Work laws from coming to our state.
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