(CBS) — ‘Tis the weekend when everyone in Chicago becomes Irish — and the party is on. Thousands lined Columbus Drive for Chicago’s 58th annual St. Patrick’s Day parade.

Chicago River Dyed Green For St. Patrick’s Day

The celebration was kicked off with the dyeing of the Chicago River, a tradition that has been in place for 52 years. Members of the Chicago Plumbers Union Local 130 hopped into motorboats and dumped an orange powder into the river which turns the water a bright green. That color is expected to last between 6 and 12 hours.

For many of the adults, it’s parade, then party. Although temperatures were in the mid 30s, many found it quite warm when compared with the polar vortex temperatures of recent weeks, although nothing like 2012, when temperatures parade day soared into the 80s.