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 Gov. Bruce Rauner today signed into
law a bill declaring Aug. 4 “Barack Obama Day,” effective in 2018.
Senate Bill 55 passed through both chambers of the General Assembly without a
single dissenting vote. The bill would only make Aug. 4 an honorary holiday and
not a legal holiday, unlike an earlier proposal.
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The first attempt to create Obama Day in the state failed in March by six votes
in the House. That plan, which would have made the day a legal holiday, was
estimated to cost Illinois taxpayers nearly $20 million in lost productivity and
state employee personnel costs given that state employees would have had the day
off. Under that bill, had Obama Day fallen on a Sunday, state workers would’ve
been given the following Monday off, as well.
Aug. 4, 2018, will mark the first Barack Obama Day in Illinois.
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