The UIC Health Sciences Campus-Rockford will observe the university's Juneteenth holiday on Friday, June 17, because June 19 is on Sunday. While the campus will be open, offices will be closed and non-essential employees will have the day off based on their classification.
This celebration honors the day in 1865 when those enslaved in Texas and Louisiana, two years after the end of the Civil War, learned that they were freed.
