Photography

Photos and picture galleries covering the Chicago area’s biggest stories and events.

Picture Chicago: 21 of the best Sun-Times photos from this week in news

By Sun-Times staff

On the second day of a record-breaking heatwave in the Chicago area, a man living on Lower Wacker Drive receives cold bottled water from The Night Ministry’s street medicine van, Thursday, Aug. 24. The man agreed to be photographed but asked not to be identified.

Picture Chicago: This week’s 19 can’t miss Sun-Times photos

By Sun-Times staff

Hundreds of striking SAG-AFTRA members and their supporters protest Tuesday near Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park.

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‘Hot labor summer’: Actors, union leaders rally in downtown Chicago as SAG-AFTRA strike continues

SAG-AFTRA has been on strike since July 13, when leaders voted to join screenwriters in the Writers Guild of America in the first joint strike in over six decades.

By Ellery Jones

Members of the U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team jump out of their C-147A plane Friday during a practice run for the weekend’s 2023 Chicago Air and Water Show.

PHOTOS: 2023 Air and Water Show rehearsals

By Sun-Times staff

Members of Bringing Out Talent dance during the annual Bud Billiken Parade along South Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Bronzeville, Saturday, Aug. 12.

Picture Chicago: 17 must-see Sun-Times photos from this week in news

By Sun-Times staff

Picture Chicago: This week’s 25 can’t miss Sun-Times photos

By Sun-Times staff

Picture Chicago: 25 of the best Sun-Times photos from this week in news

By Sun-Times staff

Picture Chicago: This week’s 26 can’t miss Sun-Times photos

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Carlos Juarez, a second-grade student at Florence Nightingale Elementary School, slides down a blow-up slide during a Chicago Public Schools back-to-school bash Friday morning in Davis Square Park on the South Side.

Chicago Public Schools hosts first back-to-school bash on the South Side: PHOTOS

By Sun-Times staff

Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes III chats with Rev. Jesse Jackson at the Rainbow PUSH Convention Faith Leaders Luncheon at the David Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago on the South Side, Tuesday, July 18. Rev. Jackson is stepping down as head of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the civil rights organization he founded in Chicago in 1971, and handing the reins to Rev. Haynes, senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas.

Picture Chicago: 12 of the best Sun-Times photos from this week in news

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Workers clean a yard near a tree that was split in half by a tornado that landed in the 6900 block of Willow Springs Road in Countryside, Thursday, July 13.

Picture Chicago: This week’s 15 can’t miss Sun-Times photos

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NASCAR driver Shane van Gisbergen #91 holds up the checkered flag as he celebrates his victory in the Grant Park 220 on the Chicago Street Race Course, Sunday, July 2.

Picture Chicago: 28 must-see photos from the week in news

By Sun-Times staff

NASCAR driver Shane van Gisbergen (91) fist pumps as he celebrates a victory after winning the Grant Park 220 NASCAR Street Race, Sunday, July 2, 2023.

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NASCAR Chicago: The race, the rain delay and more from Sunday in photos

Shane Van Gisbergen won the Grant Park 220 to wrap up NASCAR’s first weekend in Chicago. See how Sun-Times photographers’ captured Sunday on NASCAR weekend.

By Rich Hein

A bicyclist riding along the lakefront is silhouetted against a smoky Chicago skyline, when the city’s air quality was rated worst in the world as winds brought in smoke from Canadian wildfires, Tuesday, June 27.

Picture Chicago: 20 must-see Sun-Times photos from the week in news

By Sun-Times staff

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STEM workshops get students behind the wheel in an eRacing simulator

Chicago-area students take part in a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math course with hands-on racing time and a chance to build a component for an automobile.

By Pat Nabong

Sherrif Polk, a father of six who said he has spent most of the stipend he received from Equity and Transformation’s Chicago Future Fund, which gives $500 a month to formerly incarcerated people, for his kids’ clothes and toys, kisses his one-week-old son Sherrif Polk Jr. in their home in the Rogers Park neighborhood, Tuesday, May 16, 2023. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times

Picture Chicago: This week’s 13 can’t miss Sun-Times photos

By Sun-Times staff

A vendor holds a fan with a Puerto Rican flag printed on it during the Puerto Rican People’s Day Parade on West Division Street in Humboldt Park, Saturday, June 10.

Picture Chicago: 11 of the best Sun-Times photos this week

By Sun-Times staff

Chicago Police Department recruits lined up in their dark blue uniforms

Picture Chicago: 18 can’t miss Sun-Times’ photos

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Police officers run after a group of teenagers after shots were fired during an alleged fight at North Avenue Beach ahead of Memorial Day weekend, Friday, May 26. No one was injured and one person was taken into custody, according to the Chicago Police Department.

Picture Chicago: 16 must-see photos from the week in news

By Sun-Times staff

Drag queen Kitty Banks performs in Chicago at the Shedd Aquarium

PHOTOS: Shedd Aquarium Pride Night

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Picture Chicago: 11 can’t miss Sun-Times’ photos

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Brandon Johnson hugs Mayor Lori Lightfoot before he is sworn in as mayor of Chicago during the city’s inauguration ceremony at Credit Union 1 Arena, Monday, May 15.

Picture Chicago: 18 of the best Sun-Times photos this week

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Former U.S. President Barack Obama calls on a student to ask a question during a conversation with Rev. Alvin Love in front of Obama Foundation scholars who are about to graduate from the University of Chicago and Columbia University at Lilydale First Baptist Church in the Roseland neighborhood, Wednesday, May 10.

Picture Chicago: 14 must-see photos from the week in news

By Sun-Times staff

Former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore (right) leaves the Dirksen Federal Courthouse after being found guilty of bribery conspiracy, Tuesday, May 2. Pramaggiore is one of four former political power players found guilty of conspiring over nearly a decade to bribe then-Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, a once powerful Democrat who is facing his own corruption trial next year.

Picture Chicago: This week’s 12 can’t miss Sun-Times photos

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