Watch A Time-Lapse Video Of The Chicago River Being Dyed Green

By Lisa White in Arts & Entertainment on Mar 16, 2015 2:45PM

If you stayed far away from the crowds downtown this weekend and missed out on the annual tradition of dyeing the Chicago river green, you can relive the whole experience in under two minutes online. Isn't technology grand?

Reader Kurt Miller shared with us his bird's-eye view of the festivities on Saturday, from the moment the dye started slithering through the waters until the whole waterway was a dayglo green. Does the color of the dye remind anyone else of the bright green gas-like substance the evil Maleficent would shoot into the air during the original Disney movie? We smell a crossover promotion...