In case you forgot (it’s okay, we know you’re busy), Monday, May 25th, is Memorial Day 2026.
Memorial Day has always felt a little different from the other three-day weekends on the calendar. Sure, for plenty of us in Northern Illinois it marks the unofficial start of summer where grills get fired up, pools get opened, and traffic heading toward Wisconsin suddenly quadruples.
But it’s also a day set aside to remember the men and women who died serving our country…