{"id":99776,"date":"2026-01-29T14:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99776\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:36:07","slug":"philadelphias-independence-hall-reopens-after-4-months-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99776\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia\u2019s Independence Hall reopens after 4 months closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Starting Thursday, the site where American democracy was born is once again open to the public. Independence Hall had been closed for 119 days, beginning with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/11\/05\/nx-s1-5598315\/government-shutdown-longest-history\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the government shutdown on Oct. 1<\/a> and then for two more months of planned repair and maintenance.\n<\/p>\n<p>Kathryn Ott Lovell, president and CEO of the Philadelphia Visitor Center, said Independence Hall is hands down the most popular attraction in Philly\u2019s historic district.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s number one,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is an incredibly in-demand attraction in the park. I think people just want to be in the room where it happened.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p>The Visitor Center will be offering <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/independence-national-historical-park-philadelphia-colonial-history\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Independence Hall<\/a> decorated cookies to the first 250 people who come to the center in Independence National Historical Park, and inviting them to sign a giant scroll proclaiming Declaration Philly 2026.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7344,69,4001,71,70],"class_list":["post-99776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-independence-hall","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-250","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}