Is Juneteenth a federal holiday? What's open and closed Friday

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Original Load Date June 19, 2026, 7:01 a.m.
Last Updated June 19, 2026, 7:01 a.m.
Original URL https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/is-juneteenth-a-federal-holiday-whats-open-and-closed-friday/3951015/

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It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and...