There had to be at least 200 people in the parking lot when Mariah Dixon arrived Saturday night for what has been billed as a Juneteenth celebration outside a strip mall in DuPage County, near Willowbrook.
People, young and old, danced and ate, while others brought clothes and shoes to sell to the crowd.
”The whole idea of the celebration was a celebration of African American independence,” said Dixon, 23, from Bolingbrook. “I wasn’t expecting it to go left at all.”
