BURNSIDE — The City of Chicago this week will sponsor a parade to honor the Jackie Robinson West baseball team as well as a screening of a movie about how Jackie Robinson became the first black Major League Baseball player.
The free movie "42" starts at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Burnside Park, 9400 S. Greenwood Ave., as part of the Movies in the Park summer series. The PG-13 movie will show how Robinson in 1945 signed with the then-Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier in professional baseball. In 1962, Robinson was inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame. He died in 1972.
A parade to celebrate the Jackie Robinson West team's victory in the Little League U.S. Championship will be held on Wednesday.
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