This is the 104th annual Lake Bluff 4th of July Parade.
Traffic between 6 a.m. and noon is expected to be bad.
There was also a strange story of a man who got arrested while trying to buy a couch and West Nile virus arrives on the North Shore.
The annual market runs from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The Highland Park mom will have her right kidney removed next week and transplanted into her son, who had both of his removed because of a rare disease.