The Edwardsville, Illinois Halloween Parade attracts an estimated crowd of 20,000 people. In preparation for the parade during the last two years, the city’s Police Department has rented Blockader crowd control barricades to help maintain order at key points along the one-mile parade route.
For this year’s parade on October 31, which featured approximately 125 floats, the city utilized 62 interlocking steel barriers at the intersection of Main Street and Vandalia Street, the location where the crowd concentration is highest.
