Information provided by City of Danville

The MLK Committee will host only a one-day celebration for the 2024 MLK Celebration:
“Cultivating Joy.”
The celebration will begin with a motorcade/parade on Monday, January 15, 2024. The line-up for
the motorcade/parade will begin at 10:00 a.m. at the corner of Main and Logan Streets, and the
procession will start at 10:30 a.m. The motorcade will turn east on Main Street. It will travel north
on Vermilion Street. Then it will turn right onto Seminary Street. Travel until it gets to the corner of
Jackson and Seminary. Make a left onto Jackson Street. Travel on Jackson Street to the corner of
Jackson and Williams. Pause for a small ceremony at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Monument.
Then proceed west on Williams Street to Vermilion Street, turn right on Vermilion Street, then it will
turn left onto Davis Street and park on the northwest side of St. James United Methodist Church’s
parking lot. This event is open to the public.
The Community-Wide Service at St. James United Methodist Church will start at 11:30 a.m. The Reverend
Katrese Kirk-McKenzie, who is an Itinerant Elder of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and
member of the Chicago Conference, will serve as the speaker for the service. Kirk-McKenzie is a Danville
native, and she was the recipient of the MLK Scholarship in 2000.
Also, the service will include the presentation of the $4000.00 MLK Scholarship to a Danville
graduating high school senior. In addition, an ensemble of singers, under the direction of MLK
Music Director Brett Dupree, will perform at the service.
On a special note, in honor of 25 years of serving as the chair of the MLK Committee, the MLK
Committee will give a special tribute to Mrs. Mary Thompson.
For additional information, contact the Human Relations Department at 217-431-2280.