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Milwaukee's Juneteenth Day celebration returns for 50th anniversary MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Milwaukee's Juneteenth Day festival and parade will return this year on Saturday, June 19.  The parade will start at 8 a.m. from 14th and Atkinson and will travel to Burleigh and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The festival will kick off at 9:30 a.m. with festivities running along MLK Drive between Burleigh and North Avenue until 4 p.m. There were some Juneteenth Day gatherings last year, but because of the pandemic, the festival was canceled.  Supporters who attend the event in person this year a...

Milwaukee Tool and construction, finally, on the Couture, bring good news to downtown Milwaukee Journal Sentinel © Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Vice President Kamala Harris attends a roundtable discussion Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at the UW-Milwaukee University Services and Research Building in Milwaukee, Wis. This is Harris' first trip to Wisconsin as vice president. President Biden, who narrowly won the state in November, was in Milwaukee in February to tape a CNN town hall. It's a big day for downtown Milwaukee as the Common Council approved a $20 million financ...

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel It's a big day for downtown Milwaukee as the Common Council approved a $20 million financing plan for Milwaukee Tool's new office and today, nine years after it was first proposed, construction starts on the Couture apartment tower on the lakefront. The largest influx ever of jobs to downtown Milwaukee by a suburban firm is coming after the Milwaukee Tool financing plan was approved: The council voted 15-0 to help Brookfield-based Milwaukee Tool redevelop a five-story, 350,000-square-foot office building at 501 W. Michigan St. that could bring 2,000 new hires d...

Milwaukee’s Juneteenth Day celebration will be back in semi-full swing this year, after the COVID-19 pandemic canceled in-person activities for one of the state’s longest running African American events, organizers of the festival announced Tuesday. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union Army soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, with the news that all slaves were free, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth is a cultural celebration emphasizing education and the achievements of African Americans. Juneteenth is the nation’s oldest commemorati...

Springfield City Council gives initial OK to Juneteenth Day becoming 12th paid holiday for city workers; tied to end of slavery Updated May 04, 2021; SPRINGFIELD — The City Council gave first step approval to adding Juneteenth Day as the 12th paid holiday for city workers, with one of the sponsors citing the new holiday is a proper step to acknowledge the end of slavery. Councilor Tracye Whitfield, a co-sponsor, said Monday that the Fourth of July holiday celebrates independence from England in 1776, but the Juneteenth Independence holiday properly acknowledges that it was not independence...