The Feast of Maria SS. Lauretana will celebrate 122 years of continuous devotion to the Blessed Mother over the Labor Day weekend. The feast will once again be celebrated on Church Street between Greenwood and Cumberland in Niles, on the south side of the Golf Mill Shopping Center.

Festivities culminate on Sept. 4 with a procession at 9 a.m. and Mass at 10 a.m., followed by processions with the Sicilian Band of Chicago leading up to the traditional Flight of the Angels at 5 and 8 p.m. A street festival with live entertainment will run from Sept. 2-4, with amusement rides continuing through Labor Day. A Novena will begin on Aug. 25 at the society’s chapel in Chicago, with the final day being celebrated on Sept. 2 at the feast.