The Illinois Chamber of Commerce released its 2016 Annual Holiday Survey this week, providing a glimpse at how Illinois employers will handle paid holidays in 2016. The survey of 483 fi rms showed that employers will offer slightly fewer paid holidays next year than last year – on average 8.8 days in 2016 compared with 8.9 for 2015. On the fl ip side, employees will see the average number of personal days tick up slightly to 2.9 days in 2016, a tiny increase from 2015. However, here’s the really interesting part: Only 2.6 percent of employers plan to give workers the day off for Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, while 8.9 percent of employers plan to close shop for Columbus Day, a holiday celebrating a genocidal tyrant of an explorer who thought he had discovered a new route to Asia and never even landed on the North American mainland. How does Lincoln, a man who freed slaves and held a warring nation together, get less recognition than a man who enslaved many of the indigenous peoples he encountered? Maybe it’s because Lincoln and George Washington get a joint celebration for President’s Day, with 18.5 percent of workers taking the day off. Still, it may be time to get rid of this Columbus guy, much like King Ferdinand of Spain did in 1500.