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Galesburg's Labor Day Parade — believed to be the nation's oldest continuously running Labor Day parade — turns 134 this year, stepping off at 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 7, from Main and Chambers streets. Randy Bryan, president of the Galesburg Trades and Labor Assembly, and Jeff Maher, a Galesburg firefighter and the parade committee's co-chair, joined Galesburg's Morning News on Tuesday, Aug. 25, to preview this year's event — including a marquee act organizers spent nearly a decade trying to land. They talked about: The Chicago acrobatics team fresh off an America's Got Talent run This year's grand marshal and his decades of labor advocacy The 18-piece band taking over National Anthem duties at Park Plaza Why organizers keep trying to coordinate a vintage biplane flyover How to register an entry, and what the morning-of numbers usually look like The parade route, timing, and a tip for parents dropping off band students   🎧 Subscribe to Galesburg's Morning News: Apple Podcasts | Spotify