06/19/2026
The Palatine Township Senior Center is closed today in observation of the federal holiday Juneteenth. Below is a link from a TED talk explaining the history of this federal holiday. 
At the end of the Civil War, though slavery was technically illegal in all states, it still persisted in the last bastions of the Confederacy. This was the case when Union General Gordon Granger marched his troops into Galveston, Texas on June 19th and announced that all enslaved people there were o...