Cook County will recognize Juneteenth as one of the 14 paid holidays granted to its employees next year.  Juneteenth, a portmanteau of June and nineteenth, marked the June day in 1865, which commemorated the abolition of slavery in Texas. General Gordon Granger and his Union soldiers told enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, that the … Continued

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