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

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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
By Sun-Times staff
 
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
By Sun-Times staff
 
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Picture Chicago: 11 can’t miss Sun-Times’ photos
By Sun-Times staff
 
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
By Sun-Times staff
 
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
By Sun-Times staff
 
A boy smashes a piñata during an Eid al-Fitr celebration hosted by the Ojala Foundation at LaBagh Woods on the Northwest Side, Friday, April 21.
Picture Chicago: 16 best photos from Sun-Times’ photographers
By Sun-Times staff
 
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Picture Chicago: 11 of the best photos from the Sun-Times this week
By Sun-Times staff
 
South Side artist Amanda Williams transformed several vacant lots where houses once stood but were left to rot into fields and fields of red tulips.
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South Sider behind 100,000 blooming tulips: ‘It’s the artist who foretells the revolution’
Six months ago, artist Amanda Williams and a crew of volunteers planted the tulip bulbs to highlight systemic disinvestment. Now, the work, titled “Redefining Redlining,” is blooming.
By Michael Loria
 
Natalia Kavkun, widow of Chicago Fire Lt. Jan Tchoryk, touches her forehead to his at his funeral at St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Catholic Church on the Northwest Side, Thursday, April 13. Lt. Tchoryk, 55, a member of the department for 26 years, died April 5 while battling an extra-alarm blaze in a high-rise building on Lake Shore Drive in the Gold Coast neighborhood — the second firefighter to die in the line of duty that week.
Picture Chicago: This week’s 17 can’t miss Sun-Times photos
By Sun-Times staff
 
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The Chicago 11: A look at some of the city’s other Democratic National Conventions
By Sun-Times staff
 
Professors from Chicago State, Eastern Illinois and now Governors State universities rally Tuesday at the south suburban campus to demand fair pay and reduced workloads.
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Faculties at 3 public Illinois universities picket, urge more state education funding
During a rally at Governors State University Tuesday, the leader of the state faculty union said administrators have put themselves ahead of the needs of students.
By Lisa Philip | WBEZ
 
Chicago Fire Department firefighters stand at ease during the procession to the Cook County medical examiner’s office after Lt. Jan Tchoryk died battling an extra-alarm blaze in a high-rise building in the 1200 block of North Lake Shore Drive, Wednesday, April 5.
Picture Chicago: 19 best photos from Sun-Times’ photographers
By Sun-Times staff
 
William Gonzalez, 42, wears a mask before the Milwaukee Brewers versus Chicago Cubs game on Opening Day 2023 outside Wrigley Field, Thursday, March 30.
Picture Chicago: This week’s 13 can’t miss Sun-Times photos
By Sun-Times staff
 
A health care worker pauses to hold their head while working at a desk in the Emergency Department at Mount Sinai Hospital, Tuesday, March 21. COVID is receding but hospitals are left understaffed and struggling to adjust to a new medical reality.
Picture Chicago: 8 must-see photos from this week in news
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
By Sun-Times staff
 
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
By Sun-Times staff
 
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
 
Kids with Criu De Sheela laugh while riding a float during the South Side Irish Parade along Western Avenue in Beverly, Sunday, March 12.
Picture Chicago: This week’s 16 can’t miss Sun-Times photos
By Sun-Times staff
 
Winning mural at the Salt Shed. Eleven-year-old Lucy Holloway’s drawing was transformed into this mural at the Salt Shed as the grand prize in a student art contest sponsored by the Chicago Sun-Times, WBEZ and Vocalo.
This 100-foot mural at the Salt Shed was created by an 11-year-old Buffalo Grove girl: ‘Kind of crazy seeing it that big’
By Sun-Times staff
 
Flanked by family members and supporters, Milena Estepa (center, in sunglasses) cries as pallbearers carry the casket for her husband, Chicago Police Officer Officer Andres Vasquez Lasso, to the hearse after his funeral at St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel, Thursday, March 9. Vasquez Lasso, 32, who had nearly five years on the force, was shot and killed March 1 on the Southwest Side as he chased an armed suspect who turned and fired “at close range,” police said.
Picture Chicago: This week’s 13 can’t miss Sun-Times photos
By Sun-Times staff
 
Firefighters set up a large American flag outside the Cook County medical examiner’s office for a procession for Chicago Police Officer Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso, who was fatally shot Wednesday, March 1. Vásquez Lasso, 32, who had nearly five years on the force, was shot and killed in Gage Park on the Southwest Side as he chased an armed suspect who suddenly turned and fired “at close range,” police said.
Picture Chicago: 19 must-see photos from the last week in news
By Sun-Times staff
 
Mary L. Johnson, the mother of Michael Johnson and an activist who has been fighting for police torture survivors, dances as people sing and clap to “Happy Birthday” during her 90th birthday celebration at Deborah’s Place in East Garfield Park, Saturday, Feb. 18.
Picture Chicago: 16 must-see photos from the last week
By Sun-Times staff
 
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