6 Chicago museums to offer free days on Juneteenth ...Middle East

While Chicago libraries, post offices and banks are closed on Wednesday in observance of the Juneteenth holiday, other attractions, like museums will be open — and some are even offering free admission. Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, found out they had been freed — after the end of the Civil War, and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. It takes place each year on June 19, which for 2024 falls on a Wednesday. Juneteenth is recognized as a federal holiday. It is also a state holiday, with Pritzker signing the declaration naming it so in 2021. Juneteenth festivities are rooted in cookouts and large gatherings, an

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