Wawa Welcome America returns for another year in Philadelphia. The 16-day festival, including the annual Fourth of July celebration, will have fan favorites and traditions everyone knows and loves.

City tourism leaders want your help compiling a list of Philly firsts to help celebrate America’s 250th birthday.

I am yours, you are mine," he said. Smith promised he would return to the city later this year to celebrate the Fourth of July. Philadelphia's City Council approved a measure to rename the roadway ...

Philadelphia celebrates its important place ... the first city in the U.S. to celebrate the holiday with its Fourth of July Midnight Parade, which starts promptly at 11:59 p.m. on July 3.

The Fourth of July historically is one of the nation's ... Fatal drive-by shooting in Philadelphia A 19-year-old man was killed and six others were wounded in a drive-by shooting in Philadelphia ...

With the Declaration of Independence signed here, Philadelphia is, in some sense, the birthplace of the Fourth of July holiday – and yet it's still fairly affordable to visit over that period.

Each year on the fourth of July, also known as Independence Day ... old when the colonies convened a Continental Congress in Philadelphia in the summer of 1776. Related: The History of the ...

"I want Will Smith to lead the effort to bring every creative genius that has come out of Philadelphia back to the city for a concert on the Parkway for the Fourth of July," Parker said ...