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The Blue Island Lions Club has a yearly parade celebrating the 4th of July. For this event, the club sold buttons along the parade route to raise funds to continue to put on the parades. The 1977 parade button was designed by Win Nash, on the theme “jubilation 77.” The 1977 parade included a junior parade before the senior parade, with over 100 entries and featured floats, bands, drum and bugle corps, marching units, decorated vehicles, and public figures such as local congressmen, the sheriff of Cook county, and even the Governor of Illinois. After the parade, there were other festivities such as musical performances, a sky divers show, and fireworks.

The Lion's Club is a secular service club organization, founded in Oak Brook, Illinois, which promotes volunteerism, community involvement, and environmental awareness, among other things. 

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The Blue Island Lions Club has a yearly parade to celebrate the 4th of July. Lions Club members sold buttons along the parade route to raise funds to continue to put on the 4th of July parades and festivities. The 1958 parade included more than 76 trombones and the festivities that followed included a double-header little league game as well as drum-bugle corps competitions. The Lion's Club is a secular service club organization, founded in Oak Brook, Illinois, which promotes volunteerism, community involvement, and environmental awareness, amongst other things.

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The 1961 Blue Island, Illinois Lions Club annual 4th of July Parade marked the 15th anniversary of the parade and had a budget of $6,500 due to previous years button sales along the parade route. The theme of the parade was Civil War Centennial. Another centennial being celebrated at the same time was of St. Benedict Catholic parish in Blue Island, Illinois. The Lion's Club is a secular service club organization, founded in Oak Brook, Illinois, which promotes volunteerism, community involvement, and environmental awareness, among other things.

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1960 marked the 14th annual Fourth of July Parade put on by the Blue Island Lions Club, as well as the 125th birthday of the city of Blue Island. The Lion’s Club is a secular service club organization which promotes volunteerism, community involvement, and environmental awareness. Each year, the Lion’s Club sold buttons along the parade route to raise money for club activities and future events. The parade started with the Junior Parade, followed by the Senior Parade. Amateur and professional floats were welcome, and parade entries could also participate in nearby parades in Harvey and Dolton, as they were not scheduled at the same time. Later in the evening, there was live entertainment before a firework display at the high school.

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The Blue Island, Illinois, Lions Club held an annual 4th of July parade each year, with entries in both a senior and junior parade. The 1956 parade marked the 10th anniversary of the event and boasted over 100 entries in the senior parade, a 20 ft long missile with two sets of fins on a trailer, accompanied by tour men. Each year, the Lions Club sold buttons along the route, this year costing $1, to raise funds for Lions Club activities and future events. Additionally, the Girl Scouts of Blue Island were out along the parade route selling drinks and snacks to raise money to wipe out their camp debt.

The Lion's Club is a secular service club organization, founded in Oak Brook, Illinois, which promotes volunteerism.

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"National Switch Week" was part of an advertising campaign by Burger King in 1983, which encouraged people to "switch" to Burger King. Burger King often struggled to differentiate itself from McDonald's and other fast food restaurants and build brand loyalty from a customer base who would often choose the best value over name recognition. The "Switcher" campaign is thought to have inspired the 2002 Apple campaign of the same name, in which customers who had switched from Microsoft to Apple appeared in commercials praising the new computers.

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The Minnesota Centennial Historical Pageant held at Lake Bronson State Park was one of several held across the state at various locations. These all had a standard script written by Harold Searls. The serious of historical pageants intended to convey the state’s history to a large audience. These pageants did not dive too deeply into their themes and instead focused on bolstering the state’s tourist industry and thus commemorated the nineteenth century legends of the state. The breakdown of the ninety minute pageant includes the history of Minnesota from the prologue through seven episodes, all with musical accompaniment, and ends with all singing the state song, "Hail to Minnesota." Some shows included local native American tribes.

Minnesota was established as a territory on March 3rd, 1849, and became a state in 1858. In 1947, the Minnesota Legislature passed an act designating 1949 as the territorial centennial year of Minnesota’s founding and as such appropriated funds to the Minnesota Historical Society for the execution of events, radio broadcasts, and publications for the year-long celebration. Minnesota’s centennial prompted a few significant changes throughout the state, including the creation of a more extensive K-12 school curricula to include Minnesota history, signage and publicity marking historic sites and trails, the strengthening of historical societies across Minnesota, and a directory of Minnesota-related films.

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The Parke County Covered Bridge Festival is a fall festival which takes place in nine communities in Parke County, Indiana, United States. It celebrates the county's 31 covered bridges and is attended by more than 2 million people each year. It begins on the 2nd Friday in October and lasts 10 days. The festival began in 1957, when a group of local women decided to hold a three-day festival to accommodate the many interested tourists looking for information about the bridges. Now the festival is thriving and puts Mansfield on the map 10 days of the year. The first festival was rather small and occurred only in Rockville.

Rockville is a town in Adams Township, Parke County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is known as "The Covered Bridge Capital of the World". Rockville was laid out in 1824, three years after the county was founded, and became the county seat. In 1825, its population was between 500 and 600. The residents voted to incorporate the town in July 1854. The Rockville Chautauqua Pavilion and Rockville Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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The American Society for the Control of Cancer (ASCC) was founded in 1913 in New York City, setting about to raise public awareness about cancer, which was heavily steeped in fear and denial by the general public. In 1945, the organization reorganized as the American Cancer Society, with fundraising efforts used to establish the Society’s research program. Since then, society-funded researchers have contributed to nearly every major cancer breakthrough since the start of the research program. Fundraising continues to remain an important part of the Society’s efforts to raise funds and awareness to save lives from cancer taking part in the form of bike events, walk/run events, skate-a-thons, and the annual Relay for Life.

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In 1979, the then Marriott Great America park redesigned their "Turn of the Century" rollercoasters in both Illinois and California rebranding them as The Demon. The storyline explained in the soundtrack for the ride is that the park missed payments on the Turn of the Century and a demon repossessed the ride. The coaster was painted black and effects such as fog and red waterfalls were added. The theme has remained largely intact since 1979, with a temporary addition of the Looney Tunes Tasmanian Devil after the parks' purchase by Six Flags and some updates to the original Marriott logo.

The Demon at Six Flags Great America has been featured as a ride during Fright Fest, the annual Halloween theme event, where participants can ride wearing 3D goggles during certain hours and witness demon attacks during their rollercoaster experience.