{"id":402508,"date":"2026-01-12T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402508\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:00:11","slug":"chicago-st-patricks-day-parade-2026-claire-cahill-wins-contest-crowned-as-new-queen-for-st-patricks-day-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402508\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade 2026: Claire Cahill wins contest, crowned as new queen for St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; Chicago&#8217;s Irish community has chosen its next <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/tag\/st-patricks-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Patrick&#8217;s Day<\/a> Parade Queen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Claire Cahill was crowned on Sunday at the Chicago Journeymen Plumbers Hall on the city&#8217;s Near West Side.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 27-year-old woman is from Lincoln Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Cahill will be at the St Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade, a tradition now in its 71st year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Cara Walsh was the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/st-patricks-day-cara-walsh-selected-new-chicago-parade-queen\/15793557\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">queen for the 2025 parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">ABC7 Chicago is proud to be the broadcast partner of the St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">SEE MORE | <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/when-is-st-patricks-day-2025-chicago-river-dyeing-parades-take-place-weekend-what-know\/16002748\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago St. Patrick&#8217;s Day 2025: Parade, green river dyeing bring thousands downtown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; Chicago&#8217;s Irish community has chosen its next St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade Queen. Claire Cahill was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[194204,23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-402508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-194204","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}