Martha Williams, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, touches the bird-friendly film with dots on the windows of McCormick Place Lakeside Center at 2301 S. Martin Luther King Dr., Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. Bird-safe window film, marked with dots and designed to help birds distinguish between windows and nature have been installed on all the windows of the Lakeside Center.
Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times
A person stands in front of the bird-friendly film with dots on the windows of McCormick Place Lakeside Center at 2301 S. Martin Luther King Dr., Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. Bird-safe window film, marked with dots and designed to help birds distinguish between windows and nature have been installed on all the windows of the Lakeside Center.
Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times
(From left) Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez (33rd), Mayor Brandon Johnson, and Dr. Olusimbo Ige, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the expansion of the Roseland Mental Health Clinic at 200 E. 115th St. on the Far South Side, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025.
Vincent Alban/For the Sun-Times
Delta-8 THC gummy bears, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. At least for now, a legislative bid in Springfield to crack down on sales of delta-8 and under unregulated hemp products has stalled.
Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times
A person walks on shelf ice as it snows at Montrose Beach, Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. More than 100 flights were canceled and nearly 300 additional flights were delayed after a ground stop was issued at O’Hare Airport due to winter weather Friday morning.
Pat Nabong/Sun-Times
Musicians perform on a float during the Three Kings Day procession on Belmont Avenue in Belmont Cragin on the Northwest Side, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025.
Zubaer Khan/Sun-Times
Parishioners attend Mass at St. Ferdinand Church at 3101 N. Mason Ave. — conducted in Polish, English, Spanish and Tagalog — after a Three Kings Day procession in Belmont Cragin, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025.
Zubaer Khan/Sun-Times
Ashley Johnson, a bridal consultant and model, speaks to a potential customer at Bridal Boutique by New Name’s booth during the Illinois Bridal and Wedding Expo at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Ill., Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025.
Pat Nabong/Sun-Times
Protesters dressed as Blue Men from the Blue Man Group raise their hands to the building outside of the Briar Street Theatre at 3133 N Halsted St in Lakeview, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025.
Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times
Protesters dressed as Blue Men from the Blue Man Group roast marshmallows outside of the Briar Street Theatre at 3133 N Halsted St. in Lakeview, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025.
Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times
Zoraida Rios and her husband Juan, hold up a photo of their nephew Joel Jusino-Bergollo an Air Force veteran who was killed late December in Texas after a wrong way driver alluding authorities crashed into Jusino-Bergollo, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025.
Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times
Plants sit frozen off the Lakefront Trail near Oakwood Beach on the South Side as frigid temperatures and a winter storm move through the Chicago area, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025.
Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan exits the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in the Loop after a day of trial, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025.
Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times
A stitcher sews a costume at the Chicago Mascot Company’s office in Irving Park, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024.
Pat Nabong/Sun-Times
Goats eat recycled Christmas trees at Urban Growers Collective’s South Chicago Farm at 9001 S. Mackinaw Ave. on the South Side, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025.
Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times