A bolt of green — shiny, glittery, and sometimes booze-soaked — pierced the city’s foggy gloom Saturday, as hundreds of thousands of revelers lined the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade route downtown.
Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, including 6-foot-6-inch tall Jeff Walter, 25, of Chicago. Walter dressed in lime-green angel wings, a low-cut, skin-tight white T-shirt, shiny platform shoes, bling hanging from his neck, and black-and-white-checkered stockings. He called himself the “Leprechaun Fairy.”
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