Sufjan Steven’s landmark album “Come on feel the Illinoise” turned 10 recently. I always wondered what Casimir Pulaski Day was.
Well today I found out:
Casimir Pulaski Day is a holiday observed in Illinois on the first Monday of every March in memory of Casimir Pulaski (March 6, 1745[1] – October 11, 1779), a Revolutionary War cavalry officer born in Poland as Kazimierz Pułaski. He is praised for his contributions to the U.S. military in the American Revolution and known as “the father of the American cavalry”.
