Illinois Governor Pritzker Orders Flags Lowered for Juneteenth

As another Flag Day is celebrated on June 14, it seems there have been many flags in the news recently, from upside-down U.S. Flags to the Appeal to Heaven flag.

Flag Day is not a national holiday, but some states celebrate it, like Pennsylvania, as a state holiday. New York also celebrates the second Sunday in June as Flag Day which is a state holiday, according to Wikipedia.

Governor Pritzker Order Flags to Half-Staff on June 19

The Department of Central Management Services got an order from Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker to lower all U.S. and state flags from sunrise on Wednesday, June 19 through sunset on Thursday, June 20.

All persons or entities covered by the Illinois Flag Display Act should begin to fly the flags at half-staff in honor of Juneteenth National Freedom Day, according to a press release from the Governor of Illinois office.

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From secret gardens to underground caves, Stacker compiled a list of 25 must-visit hidden gems from across the United States using travel guides, news articles, and company websites.

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LOOK: See how much gasoline cost the year you started driving

To find out more about how has the price of gas changed throughout the years, Stacker ran the numbers on the cost of a gallon of gasoline for each of the last 84 years. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (released in April 2020), we analyzed the average price for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline from 1976 to 2020 along with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for unleaded regular gasoline from 1937 to 1976, including the absolute and inflation-adjusted prices for each year.

Read on to explore the cost of gas over time and rediscover just how much a gallon was when you first started driving.

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