People in Chicagoland celebrate the Independence Day with parades and cookouts around the city. Sahrei Barber, with the Kenwood Academy High School Majorettes, performs during the Fourth of July with the "4th on 53rd" parade and festival in Hyde Park on July 4,

Trump signed the multitrillion-dollar legislation outside the White House, and then banged down the gavel that House Speaker Mike Johnson gifted him that was used during the bill’s final passage Thursday.

The Fourth of July holiday, also known as Independence Day, celebrates the Second Continental Congress’ unanimous adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. A year later, according to the Library of Congress,