Vive la difference for our Paris Towns not too similar--but 'we have French onion soup sometimes'

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: February 25, 2003| Author: Andrew Herrmann | Copyright information

PARIS--Oh, how they love to take to the streets here. They'll march for 2, 21/2 hours at a time, sometimes. The mayor of Paris leads the mob from atop a three-wheel motorcycle.

"I'd say we had 150 units last summer," he says. "It was pretty good."

See, Memorial Day is a big day here in Paris . . . Illinois. That, and the Honeybee Festival in the fall really brings them out. They like parades in Paris. So they march.

It's 4,248 miles as the crow flies between Paris, Illinoi...