Mexican Independence Day celebrations will make for a busy weekend in Chicago, as drivers can expect possible street closures downtown, after previous years had the city’s Central Business District gridlocked with car caravans for hours.
Parades also will shut down parts of Little Village and the South Side.
Last year, the city temporarily closed streets in downtown Chicago to most traffic to avoid the gridlock that had been caused in previous years when tens of thousands of cars flooded the streets…