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ALTON - Alton has a long-standing Juneteenth Celebration tradition and the Juneteenth Committee is already in preparation for ...
The Chargers visited the USS Abraham Lincoln in San Diego and had a walk-through on the deck, signed autographs, and toured the ship with nearly 100 members of the Navy and their families.
Jeff Daniels criticized the Republican Party's "deterioration" during an interview, claiming Harris would have appointed figures like Liz Cheney to her cabinet.
A bust of Abraham Lincoln and a map showing “Gulf of America” written on it is pictured in the Oval Office of the White House as President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce that ...
Ivy League professor father of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani linked Hitler's Holocaust to Abraham Lincoln during comments at a 2022 panel discussion hosted by the Asia Society.
An elderly woman has died after a vehicle crash at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood. Okcha Elliott, 83, of Joliet, was pronounced dead at 12:08 p.m. Wednesday at Saint Joseph Medical Center ...
Ever wondered about the origins of the Abraham Lincoln sculpture seated on a bench in downtown Bloomington? Here's a look back at its roots in the city's sesquicentennial celebration on July 1, 2000.
Griffin, the founder and chief executive of Citadel, broke the auction record for a Lincoln-signed document.
An event marking the official end to slavery in the United States took the stage last week as people gathered to celebrate this year's Juneteenth observance. Juneteenth marks the day when Union Gen.
At Brown Sugar Bounce's block party, South House, and other festivities throughout the weekend, style lovers hit the streets.
Although President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the Confederate states in 1863, it could not be enforced in many places in the South until after the war. Even when ...
Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma are still fighting for full citizenship in the tribal ...