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In addition to 10 pitmasters vying for rib supremacy, among the featured attractions new this year at the 24th annual rib extravaganza is a bigger kids area and a whiskey tasting.
Buddy Guy performs at Millennium Park, a kid-designed playground is erected in West Englewood, and spectators turn out for the Puerto Rican People's Day Parade.
The June 19 federal and state holiday honors the day in 1865 when the last enslaved African Americans learned they had been freed — two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Morgan Stanley employees joined Kaboom staffers in creating a safe play space at the Mitzi Freidheim Child & Family Center. "Being able to wave to the kids and seeing the excitement on their faces has been just amazing," one volunteer said.