Nearly 1,000 converge downtown for Juneteenth ‘Million Man

Hundreds of Chicagoans spent Juneteenth downtown Friday, marching to commemorate the tip of slavery within the United States. The march kicked off at 11 a.m. close to the intersection of State Street and Balbo Drive and is recently making its method to Daley Plaza for a rally. Participants have been noticed having amusing alongside the best way, dancing tune from a marching band that led the gang. Many wore mask to give protection to themselves from the coronavirus. A portmanteau of June and 19, the vacation celebrates the day when the remaining enslaved African Americans discovered they have been unfastened 155 years in the past. While the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves within the South in 1863, it wasn’t