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Columbus Day will no longer be observed in Chicago Public Schools

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Chicago Public Schools will now call Columbus Day, Indigenous People's Day.

Earlier this week the school board voted to make the change. Columbus Day is the second Monday in October. Indigenous People's Day celebrates Native American people and their cultures, while Columbus Day celebrates the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas.


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