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Pritzker proclaims Juneteenth in Illinois
Michelle Duster, Myiti Sengstacke-Rice, Haki Madhubuti honored in ceremony at Thompson Center
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Ted CoxJ.B. Pritzker, Donald Trump, Michelle Duster, Myiti Sengstacke-Rice, Haki Madhubuti, Illinois Human Rights Council, Ida B. Wells, Juneteenth, Gordon Granger, Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation, Slavery, Slavery Reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton
The right side of history: Galesburg
Site of pivotal Lincoln-Douglas debate was also a key stop on the Underground Railroad
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Ted CoxAbraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Slavery, Civil War, Underground Railroad, Knox College, Galesburg, Owen Muelder, S.S. McClure, Edgar Lee Masters, Eugene Field, Don Marquis, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Owen Lovejoy, Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy, Spoon River Anthology, Carl Sandburg, Lombard College
This day in Illinois history: Alton abolitionist
Rev. Lovejoy: No, not ‘The Simpsons’ preacher, but the first martyr to the First Amendment
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Ted CoxThe Simpsons, Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy, Rev. Lovejoy, Alton Observer, Alton Telegraph, Jim Shrader, Larry Doyle, John Quincy Adams, Slavery, Underground Railroad, Alton IL
