Grant’s sword belt can be seen at the new National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg ... www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org. Column: Chicago Bears’ coaching search enters Week 2 as hot candidate ...

While Chicago libraries, post offices and banks ... found out they had been freed — after the end of the Civil War, and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

Pritzker said at the museum. “Despite our current divisions and challenges, more than 150 years after a terrible civil war, our nation perseveres. Yet we must constantly learn the lessons of our ...

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — after the end of the Civil War ... While some Chicago museums remain closed, others are ...