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On St. Patrick s Day, Tom Rowan will do the same thing he has done that day for the past 56 years: He ll make the Chicago River run green.Rowan, a 75-year-old retired police officer, is the man behind the famous Windy City ritual. The city s St. Patrick s Day parade is world-renowned, primarily because of its unique tradition of dyeing the river green. The original Mayor Daley in the 1950s wanted to do something special, he wanted to dye the whole of Lake Michigan green. But it was just too stanley cups huge to do. The next best thing was the Chicago River, Rowan told CNN.A friend of Mayor Richard J. Daley had come to him with an intriguing idea in 1961. He had noticed a plumber s overalls stained with a striking shade of green. The substance was a dye used to test for leaks in pipes. This was the lightbulb moment in which a great Chi-Town custom was conceived. The Chicago River was first dyed green in 1962, to the delight of the many Irish Chicagoans. How the tradition startedRowan s father, Tom Sr., worked on the police marine unit in charge of the department s patrol boats. Daley gave Tom Sr. and his colleague Michael Butler the responsibility of dropping the dye into the river from their boats. They brought their teenage sons along to help, making it a family affair of Rowans and Butlers.Since 1962, the dye crew has been exclusively the two families. Over half a vaso stanley century later, Tom Jr. will lead a crew of six across two boats, manned by the stanley romania sons and grandsons of Tom Sr. and Michae Irph McDonald s employee not eligible for reward; Man starts Seminole Heights Heroine fundraiser
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