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Holiday travel over the Independence Day weekend is expected to nearly return to pre-pandemic levels, according to AAA.
Rapper KSI admits he expects his friends to tease him for his singing on new single 'Holiday'.
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Illinois' primary election will be moved from March to June next year under a voter access expansion recently signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
On this episode of Capitol News Illinois’ podcast, Capitol Cast: a discussion of Juneteenth becoming a state holiday in Illinois, and also of this week’s General Assembly special session days.
Illinois government offices will be closed Friday in a nod to a new federal law, making Juneteenth an official holiday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Thursday.
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a bill that makes Juneteenth a federal holiday, meaning most federal employees will get a paid day off Friday.
The annual June 19 tradition commemorates the day in 1865 when former American slaves in Galveston, Texas, were finally informed of President Lincoln's Jan. 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation into law Wednesday that made Juneteenth a paid state holiday in Illinois.
At a bill signing ceremony in front of a signed copy of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, Gov. JB Pritzker signed House Bill 3922 into law, designating June 19 as Juneteenth National Freedom Day in Illinois.
A few feet away from a rare copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln, Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday signed legislation making Juneteenth an official state holiday.
Illinois became the latest state to make Juneteenth an official state holiday as Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a measure Wednesday near a rare signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation.
The copy of the proclamation that's signed by Lincoln and Secretary of State William Seward will be displayed between June 15 and July 6.
Amazon said Wednesday that it will hold its annual Prime Day over two days in June this year, the earliest it has ever held the sales event.
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Lawmakers could move legislation through committees and floor votes on the final day of the session today.
Juneteenth commemorates the date in 1865 when the last enslaved Black people in the U.S. learned from Union soldiers in Texas that they were free, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.
This holiday weekend will feel something closer to Memorial Days of old as more states lift COVID-19 restrictions. Get the latest updates and view maps and charts showing rising vaccination and waning infections and deaths in the U.S.
If Pritzker signs the bill into law, it would take effect in 2022, making June 19 Illinois' 13th official state holiday.
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