A unity motorcade and community festival in Aurora. A parade of African flags in Elgin. Two churches — one white from Wheaton, one Black from Chicago — coming together in a show of solidarity. These are some of the ways suburbanites are marking the newly recognized federal and state holiday of Juneteenth on Saturday.
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