https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&From=RSS&ID=8067240&GUID=103716AA-BA8E-4A85-B192-81CCD6C962D5Legistar15https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&From=RSS&ID=8067240&GUID=103716AA-BA8E-4A85-B192-81CCD6C962D5103716AA-BA8E-4A85-B192-81CCD6C962D5-2026-06-10-22-14-32Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION RESOLUTION HONORING THE ANNIVERSARY OF JUNETEENTH WHEREAS, 161 years ago on June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and issued General Order No. 3, with news the Civil War ended and the enslaved were free; and WHEREAS, prior to Major General Gordon Granger’s issuance of General Order No. 3, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. The Emancipation Proclamation declared slaves in the Confederate states, “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” Subsequently, the issuance of General Order No.3 came nearly two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1863; and WHEREAS, the Emancipation Proclamation laid the groundwork for the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolishing slavery throughout the United States and its territories; and WHEREAS, formerly enslaved African Americans, along with free African Americans known as freedmen, in the Southwest region of the United States Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:14:32 GMT