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Article: Illinois first in Pulaski salute // Monday is holiday for students, many others to honor hero of U.S. Revolution
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 2, 1986
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The sun will rise Monday, at precisely 6:23 a.m., on the
nation's first Count Casimir Pulaski Day.
Illinois is the first state in the nation to give the
Revolutionary War hero his day, though the state didn't even exist
when Pulaski died defending Savannah, Ga., in 1779.
Pulaski's name is not a household word, although Pulaski Road is
named for him, but he will be blessed by Illinois school children
tomorrow. They will get the day off in his honor, courtesy of the
Legislature. Some districts, though, will have to make up the day at
the end of the school calendar.
Pulaski, who was born in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on
March 4, 1748, and his father and brothers joined an ...