Column: This Labor Day a cheerless occasion for organized labor – Lake County News-Sun*

"Lake County’s main observance of the Labor Day holiday, the once-annual parade in Zion, is not being held this year. At one time, union members and their families proudly strutted down Sheridan Road in the city’s downtown and manned floats on the holiday weekend. The parade and celebration marking the rise of the labor movement in the 1890s not only in Zion and Lake County, but across the nation, has again been shelved. That in itself says something about the state of organized labor."

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