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Chicago, other cities, cancel St. Patrick's Day parades

by Associated Press
| March 11, 2020 12:30 PM

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago on Wednesday joined the ranks of cities around the world to scrap St. Patrick's Day parades amid concerns about spread of the new coronavirus, calling off an event that attracts tens of thousands of revelers who line the streets, pack themselves into pubs and peer into a river that every year is turned bright green.

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