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A crowd parades down State Street to the Coliseum on April 3, 1971, in Chicago in memory of slain civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. In the years after King's death, memorial events occurred in April and January to honor him. In 1973, Illinois was the first state to make MLK Day a legal holiday.
We remember Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. each January 15, which was the slain civil rights leader’s birthday.Advertisement Gov. Dan Walker speaks at a press conference on Sept. 18, 1973, at the State of Illinois building in Chicago. The prior day, Walker signed a bill creating a legal holiday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.
Schools here began commemorating the occasion in 1969. They wouldn’t, however, close for the day until Gov. Dan Walker made it a legal holiday on Sept. 17, 1973. The bill’s sponsor: Illinois Rep. Harold Washington. It would take another decade before the federal government designated the third Monday in January as a national holiday in honor of King. By then, Washington had become Chicago’s first Black mayor.This week we take a look back at King’s time in Chicago and the effort to organize an annual celebration of his life.
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