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Jesse Jackson Service to Draw Leaders Including Biden, Obama and Clinton

The large-scale, public event in Chicago on Friday caps two weeks of memorials for Mr. Jackson, the civil rights leader, who died at 84.

Three former presidents, a sitting mayor and governor, business executives, clergy members and gospel singers were expected to gather on Friday morning on the South Side of Chicago at a public memorial service for the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

The service on Friday, which could draw thousands of Chicagoans, caps two weeks of memorials to Mr. Jackson, whose oratory and activism arguing for racial equality and opportunity made him one of the most powerful civil rights figures of his time.

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• The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s celebration of life will unfold in Chicago today and Saturday. Today’s ceremony is being billed as “The People’s Celebration.” Saturday’s services will be private.

• The towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America died Feb. 17 at the age of 84.

• Several prominent people will speak at today’s ceremony, including former presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, as well as former Vice President Kamala Harris.

• Marvin Sapp, Bebe Winans, Jennifer Hudson and Hezekiah Walker are among the musicians scheduled to perform.

There were long lines outside Chicago’s House of Hope, hours before doors opened for “The People’s Celebration.”

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