Chinese Consul General in Chicago Zhao Jian greeted the Chinese community in Chicago with happy Chinese Lunar New Year. He highly praised their efforts to promote Chinese culture and mutual understandings between communities.

Chicago has been hosting annual celebrations of Chinese Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, for the last seven years.

Apart from the parade on Sunday, other Chinese New Year-themed celebrations have been organized in Chicago over the past two weeks by the Chicago Cultural Center, the Chicago Symphony Center and the Chinese Fine Arts Society.