Philadelphia is home to a lot of American firsts. First Slinky. First ice cream soda. First Thanksgiving Day Parade. First ...

Every week in 2026, Philadelphia will host an event celebrating one of the city's historic firsts. Among the honorees will be ...

While Macy’s wasn’t the nation’s first Thanksgiving Day spectacle—that honor goes to Philadelphia’s Gimbels parade, launched four years earlier—over time it set the standard for what ...

The 2025 Philadelphia St. Patrick's Day parade is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. at 16th Street and JFK Boulevard, march north on 16th to the Ben Franklin Parkway and then end in front of the Art ...

Cleanup is underway along the Ben Franklin Parkway after the 105th 6abc Dunkin' Thanksgiving Day Parade kicked off the holiday season! Father, son duo turns love for clowns into parade tradition ...

For Colin Bradley, director of the St. Patrick's Day Parade, celebrating Irish heritage and culture with the City of Brotherly Love is all in the family.

Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Philadelphia for its Saint Patrick's Day Parade. Sunday- music, floats, and traditional Irish jigs helped to paint the city green. The parade is one of the ...