Inmates attend Christmas Day mass held by Rainbow PUSH at Division 11 of the Cook County Jail, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024.
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Amaya Garcia, 6, plays with a little Christmas tree lamp that sits on a table in her family’s Irving Park home, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. The Garcia family is an interfaith family who will be celebrating Hanukkah and Christmas, which both fall on the same day this year.
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Children peek out of the sunroof of their families’ vehicles ahead of a Hanukkah car parade stepping off from the parking lot of Bernard Horwich Jewish Community Center, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024.
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A factory viewed from the Calumet River on the Southeast Side, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. Community advocates hope that residents can some day use the Calumet River for recreation, sharing space with businesses on the Southeast Side. | Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times
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Chicago Bears wide receiver DJ Moore #2 gets tackled as he runs with the ball during the first quarter against the Detroit Lions at Soldier Field, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024.
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Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff #16 throws the ball to tight end Sam LaPorta #87 during the first quarter against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024.
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Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams #18 lies on the field after getting sacked during the fourth quarter against the Detroit Lions at Soldier Field, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024.
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Ethan Demers, 23, a Starbucks employee for more than three years, pickets with other Starbucks workers and their supporters outside the coffee shop in Edgewater on the North Side, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. Workers at some Starbucks stores started a five-day strike Friday in three U.S. cities, including Chicago, to protest lack of progress in contract negotiations with the company.
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Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez grabs his things and begins to leave after the Chicago Board of Education unanimously voted to fire him during a special board meeting at the Colman office, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024.
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Supporters of Acero charter schools express relief Friday after the CPS Board of Education voted to spare seven of them from planned closures this school year.
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Carol Duncan, wife of Andrew Duncan, who was the choir director of Wendell Phillips High School Choir, holds a photo of her husband in her home in Racine, Wisc., Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024.
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Chiyem Slaughter, 4, looks happy about his gift at Jackie Robinson Elementary School Friday. Students were surprised with presents in time for Christmas.
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Antonío Garcia reads a Hanukkah and Christmas-themed children’s book to his daughter Amaya, 6, in the living room of their Irving Park home, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. The Garcia family is an interfaith family who will be celebrating Hanukkah and Christmas, which both fall on the same day this year.
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