Ashlee Rezin
Visual journalist
Ashlee Rezin is a visual journalist at the Chicago Sun-Times.
Aldermen had the option to attend remotely, and 22 did, including Roderick Sawyer (6th) and Maria Hadden (49th). Sawyer is fully vaccinated but said he stayed remote “in solidarity” with aldermen who still can’t be there in person.
About 6,000 kids went back to Chicago Public Schools classrooms Monday for the first time in 300 days, but it wasn’t school as usual for those students or their teachers.
The historian and civil rights activist waved to dozens of supporters in vehicles decorated with balloons and signs. “Part of my birthday has been rewarded with the non-election of Donald Trump,” Black said. “That’s a wonderful birthday wish.”
While Adam Hollingsworth sold his remaining four horses for “hundreds” in different private sales across the state, he pledged the situation was “temporary” and that he would get all of the horses back “eventually.”
The drive-in theater-like event at Soldier Field’s South parking lot showcases queens from various seasons of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
Cardboard cutouts and piped-in crowd noise were the order of the day as both teams finally began the regular season at home.
About 5 million Sun-Times photo negatives were thought to have been lost — until discovered by the Chicago History Museum, which begins to put them on display Friday.
The first person with COVID-19 came into Roseland Community Hospital on March 15. Since then, it’s been a battle to save lives.
Mario Araujo spent most of his career on Truck 25, which operates in Rogers Park on the North Side. He died April 7 after a battle with the coronavirus.