AZ Briefing: Phoenix-area weekend freeway closures

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Sat Jun 28 2025

Good morning, Arizona. Here’s what our reporters are working on and what you should know about what’s happening across the state before you start your day.

A few closures and lane restrictions were scheduled for the weekend of June 27-30, due to improvement projects along parts of Phoenix-area freeways, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.

The westbound Loop 202 (Santan Freeway) was set to close at Arizona Avenue (State Route 87) in Chandler. Three westbound on-ramps were also scheduled to be closed. Here’s what to know before you hit the road.

Landmark Mexican restaurant closing original location after 26 years

You’ll come for the Sonoran hot dogs but stay for the burros, tortas and tacos at El Guero Canelo in Tucson.

Provided by El Guero Canelo

The Mexican restaurant that introduced Arizona to Sonoran hot dogs is closing its historic first location after 26 years. Here’s why and what’s next.

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Today in history

Here are just some of the historic events on this date in the past.

•	On this day in 1894: President Grover Cleveland signed legislation that made Labor Day a national holiday to be celebrated on the first Monday in September. In the 1880s and 1890s, labor activists had sought recognition to honor the achievements of American workers, with over 30 states having adopted the holiday by the time it received federal approval.
•	In 1919: World War I ended after Germany and the Allied powers ratified the Treaty of Versailles in Paris. Over 53,000 U.S. service members died in battle and another 63,000 of them died otherwise in service to the nation during the Great War, which had about 20 million military and civilian deaths on all sides.
•	In 1964: Black Muslim Malcolm X, a militant civil rights activist who pushed for the empowerment of Black people, announced the formation of the Organization of Afro-American Unity after he had broken away from the Nation of Islam and converted to orthodox Islam. Eight months later, Malcolm X was fatally shot inside New York’s Audubon Ballroom, the same location of the OAAU’s founding meeting.
•	In 1969: New York police executing a search warrant raided an LGBTQ+ bar called the Stonewall Inn, and some of the patrons resisted as officers continued interrogating them and bar employees. The initial resistance the first night continued into early the next morning, then more protesters converged on the area the next night with fighting that lasted into the next week. In 2016, President Barack Obama declared the Greenwich Village bar a national monument.
•	In 1970: The first Gay Pride marches in the United States were organized one year after the Stonewall Uprising. Thousands of LGBTQ+ people demonstrated for equal rights in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
•	In 2004: U.S.-led control of Iraq ended when the coalition passed power to the interim government there.

— Charlie White, USA TODAY Network

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