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. — 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.

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Picture Chicago: 8 must-see photos from this week in news

From endorsements trickling in for mayoral candidates Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas, to Wilco performing at the Riviera Theatre, Sun-Times photographers were out capturing another week in Chicago news.

By Sun-Times staff

Jeff Tweedy of Wilco performs at the Riviera Theatre, Thursday, March 23.

Jackie Anyaso, 28, who got into Harvard’s emergency medicine program, receives a hug during Match Day at the University of Illinois Chicago’s Isadore and Sadie Dorin Forum, Friday, March 17. About 170 graduating medical students at UIC simultaneously opened letters that revealed their future residency programs.

A teenager suffering from a gunshot wound to the hip is treated in the Emergency Department at Mount Sinai Hospital, Tuesday, March 21.

Rosendo Hernandez (second from left), who filed a lawsuit with his brother against former Det. Reynaldo Guevara, the City of Chicago and other officers, receives a hug during a press conference outside City Hall in the Loop, where attorneys announced that nine exonerees who claim to have been wrongfully imprisoned because of Guevara’s investigative misconduct filed eight lawsuits, Tuesday, March 21. — Rosendo Hernandez (second from left), who filed a lawsuit with his brother against former Chicago Police Det. Reynaldo Guevara, the City of Chicago and other officers, receives a hug during a press conference outside City Hall in the Loop, where attorneys announced that nine exonerees who claim to have been wrongfully imprisoned because of Guevara’s investigative misconduct filed eight lawsuits, Tuesday, March 21.

Nels Cline of Wilco performs on day one of their three night performance at the Riviera Theatre, Thursday, March 23.

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