President's Day 2022 In Cleveland Heights: What's Open, Closed

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH — President's Day is Monday and several Cleveland Heights institutions will either be closed or otherwise impacted by the holiday.

Cleveland Heights City Hall, Cleveland Heights Municipal Court, and the Cleveland Heights Community Center will be closed Monday. The Heights Schools will also be closed for the holiday.

Refuse and recycling collection will be delayed one day for the holiday.

History of the Holiday

Banks, post offices and other services will be closed Monday, Feb.21, for Presidents Day, a holiday established by Congress decades ago to move the celebration of George Washington’s birthday to the third Monday of February every year.

Presidents Day doesn’t officially include Abraham Lincoln’s birthday on Feb. 12, which was celebrated by a handful of states.

The 16th U.S. president was born in 1809 in LaRue County, Kentucky, though his birth state isn’t one of the five — Lincoln’s adopted state of Illinois plus California, Connecticut, Missouri and New York — that observe his birthday as a holiday.

In the public consciousness, though, Lincoln’s birthday is spun in with that of the first U.S. president, George Washington, and is observed on the third Monday in February. This year, that’s on Feb. 21.

Technically, though, the holiday observed on the third Monday of February commemorates Washington’s birth on Feb. 22, 1732.

The Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1971 doesn’t mention Lincoln’s birthday, or even Presidents Day. Some lawmakers argued during debate that Washington’s birthday should be renamed Presidents Day to include Lincoln, but Congress rejected that.

Before the Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1971, Washington’s birthday was celebrated on the anniversary of his birth regardless of the day of the week.

A few of the services that will be closed Monday for Presidents Day include:

The Federal Reserve system won’t be operating, so that means most banks will be closed. ATMs will operate as usual.

The New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq and bond markets will be closed. So will the U.S. Postal Service.