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The week in photos: 2025 Thanksgiving Parade

| Author: Aaron Mills | Media Contact: Aaron Mills

The 2025 America's Thanksgiving Parade® presented by Gardner White featured a brand new Central Michigan University parade float. This marked the 99th year for the parade, and the fifth year that a CMU float made its way down Woodward Avenue in Detroit on Thanksgiving day. Photos by Lance Gascho.

A large group of people dressed in CMU clothing pose for a photo in front of the CMU Thanksgiving parade float

The CMU parade float, featuring cartoon-like fire and up-arrow characters, makes its way down through Downtown Detroit

Lester Booker Jr. wears CMU clothing, walks in the parade giving high-fives to spectators

Excited parade watchers, including one wearing a a CMU Chippewas sweatshirt, cheer and clap

A wide angle view of the CMU parade float as it moves past The Fox Theatre in Downtown Detroit

Five people stand on top of the CMU parade float waving to the crowd

CMU parade walkers, wearing maroon vests and CMU hats and gloves, wave to the crowd

A man with glasses and a gray mustache walks in a parade waving to the crowd while wearing CMU-branded clothing

Three people stand in front of the CMU parade float, smiling and waving at the camera

CMU parade walkers greet spectators, including a woman sitting on the ground holding a collie dog

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