Chicago: Practitioners Attend the Grand Labor Day Parade in the City of Naperville

On September 2, 2002, Falun Gong practitioners from the Chicago area attended the grand Labour Day Parade in the City of Naperville, a neighbouring city of Chicago. Naperville has a population of 130,000. The Chinese population here is the densest in the vicinity and the interference to hold activities is also very severe here. Practitioners from Naperville made great efforts together, and obtained the approval to distribute Dafa truth-clarifying materials.

Early in the morning, practitioners from the Chicago area all came to the starting point of the parade. Some practitioners stayed up throughout the night to decorate the float. Some practitioners immediately drove here to join the parade after some other activities without taking a rest over night. Attendees lined up waiting for the start of the procession. After some initial rain, the sun shone just before the parade began.

The float and procession slowly moved forward. Two practitioners holding a huge banner reading, "Falun Dafa" in both Chinese and English led our procession. "Seven flying heavenly girls" in court dresses followed them. The banners on both sides of the float that read, "The World Needs Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance" were extremely eye-catching. One after another, spectators waved to practitioners. Some even imitated practitioners' exercise movements. Some came into the procession to shake hands with practitioners.

Although it rained heavily before the parade, nearly 10,000 spectators came to watch the parade. The peaceful and serene procession of Dafa practitioners brought the beauty of Dafa to the local people. Over 5,000 Dafa truth-clarifying flyers were also handed out.