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Juneteenth Organization brings together police, children

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The Elgin Juneteenth Organization sponsored their annual Shop with a Cop program, where officers from the Elgin Police Department are paired up with local children and given gift cards at a store to buy toys and clothes. Due to COVID-19, instead of letting the participating children actually shop at the store, gift cards were given to 20 children between the ages of five and ten years old. The gift cards were given out on Saturday morning. The Elgin Juneteenth Organization’s goal of Shop with a Cop is to build relationships between the children and police and to make the children’s ...

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