Halloween on Halsted, 2007

I missed the Parade. But even though the festivities started at 7 p.m. and I didn't get there until almost 8, this stretch of Halsted is part of Boys' Town, Chicago's gay enclave, and there was still a lot to see.

Santa (making an early visit). Chewbacca. Marie Antoinette. A very tall Oompa-Loompa. Senator Larry Craig in the bathroom stall. A lock and key. Mayan warriors. Michael Myers. Several angels. A little devil. Jack Skellington from "Nightmare before Christmas". Spiderman waiting to get into a club. Britney Spears waiting to get into a club(!?) Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf. Killer Bees. A nun with a camera phone. A fan dancer. A pug dressed up like a cooked lobster. And many other sights and sounds.

And at the end, a scary sight indeed: a middle-aged man under sodium-vapor station lights;-)

Category:

Comedy

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• Chicago
• Halsted
• Belmont
• Halloween
• Britney
• Spears
• costume
• costumes
• gay
• north
• side
• Boys
• Town
• Larry
• Craig
• pee
• night
• police

[Damianplaza]

I totally seen so many of my friends there, I was there with my dogs that night last year. Ahhh chicago, theres no place like home Loved it.

[iamandrewssoul]

the "nun" looks more like michael palin in Python's "Life of Brian," who wants the right to have children, wear a dress, etc. despite being a man, the Judaen People's Front or whatever. Which would be appropriate in context.

[lizunderwater]

I missed the parade too. Aw poop. I was too busy putting on my crappy make up. And I'm kinda in your vid. I was standing in front of Dorothy the ASL translator at the stage. I thought I saw my big green hair but I'm not sure. Halloween on Halsted is the best. Can't wait for next year!