https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&From=RSS&ID=4651458&GUID=CE895163-D431-424C-A443-22CAB3D95FC0Legistar15https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&From=RSS&ID=4651458&GUID=CE895163-D431-424C-A443-22CAB3D95FC0CE895163-D431-424C-A443-22CAB3D95FC0-2020-12-18-23-36-17Title: PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE TO FILE 20-3460 (Rules and Administration Committee 12/16/2020) Sponsored by: STANLEY MOORE, DENNIS DEER, ALMA E. ANAYA, LUIS ARROYO JR, SCOTT R. BRITTON, JOHN P. DALEY, BRIDGET DEGNEN, BRANDON JOHNSON, BILL LOWRY, KEVIN B. MORRISON, DEBORAH SIMS, LARRY SUFFREDIN, DONNA MILLER, AND FRANK J. AGUILAR, Cook County Board of Commissioners PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT JUNETEENTH RECOGNIZED AS A COOK COUNTY HOLIDAY WHEREAS, On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation; and WHEREAS, The Emancipation Proclamation established that all enslaved people in Confederate states and against the Union shall be set free from slavery; and WHEREAS, Many slave owners in the state of Texas did not release their slaves; and WHEREAS, On June 19th, 1865, General Gordan Grainger and his troops made their way to Galveston, Texas after the surrender of General Robert E. Lee on Appomattox, Virginia. Upon General Grainger's arrival in Texas soil, he issued Generals Order No. 3; and WHEREAS, This order officially declared the immediate release and Fri, 18 Dec 2020 23:36:17 GMT