The Juneteenth holiday marks the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, found out they had been freed.
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Chicago Tribune

The Illinois town of Plano made history in its celebration of Juneteenth, but now the party’s getting moved to Yorkville

Plano, a town near Aurora in Kendall County that’s home to about 12,000, made history in February 2021 when it became the first municipality in Illinois to recognize Juneteenth as a holiday.

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