Photography

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

From left, Pilipili and Lomelok, large lion cubs, lounge side by side on the highest rock of their outdoor enclosure at Lincoln Park Zoo.

Picture Chicago: 12 can't miss photos from Sun-Times photographers

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Jim Gwinn, who has worked at Conn-Selmer for 11 years, works on a trombone at the factory in Elkhart, Indiana Wednesday, March 27, 2024. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

Picture Chicago: 18 must-see Sun-Times photos from this week in news

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Obit-HerrickFILE - In this Feb. 6, 2016, photo, Gene Herrick smiles during an interview at his home in Rocky Mount, Va. Herrick, a retired Associated Press photographer who covered the Korean War and is known for his iconic images of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and the trial of the killers of Emmett Till in the early years of the Civil Rights Movement, died Friday, April 12, 2024. He was 97. (Stephanie Klein-Davis/The Roanoke Times via AP, file) ORG XMIT: VAROA302

Obituaries

Gene Herrick, AP photographer who covered the Korean War and civil rights, dies at 97

As a photographer for the Associated Press, Gene Herrick photographed the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and the men accused of killing Emmett Till. He also covered Major League Baseball, Elvis Presley and five U.S. presidents.

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Third and fourth grade students watch a solar eclipse at Marquette Elementary School at 6550 S. Richmond St. in Chicago Lawn, Monday, April 8, 2024. I Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

Picture Chicago: 17 photos worth seeing this week

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Klaus Makela conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through Saul Zinovjev’s ‘Batteria’ at the Symphony Center's Orchestra Hall in The Loop, Thursday, April 4, 2024. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Picture Chicago: 17 must-see Sun-Times photos from the first week of April 2024

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Picture Chicago: 13 must-see Sun-Times photos

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Paradegoers cheer during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Columbus Drive, Saturday, March 17, 2024. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times

Picture Chicago: This week’s 23 can’t miss Sun-Times photos

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Picture Chicago: 16 can’t miss Sun-Times photos from this week in news

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Picture Chicago: 20 must-see Sun-Times photos from this week in news

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Lightning strikes over the Chicago skyline, seen from Montrose Harbor on the North Side, as a severe storm passes through the area, Tuesday, Feb. 27.

Picture Chicago: 13 can’t miss Sun-Times photos from this week in news

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Seventh and Eighth grade students at St. Nicholas Cathedral School listen during a prayer vigil for Ukraine inside the school’s gymnasium in Ukrainian Village, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Picture Chicago: 15 Sun-Times photos from this week in news

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Reese Alexander, a flight attendant for more than 30 years, rallies with dozens of other flight attendants represented by three unions — the Association of Flight Attendants, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants and the Transport Workers Union — calling for a fair contract and picketing at O’Hare International Airport, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

Picture Chicago: 14 Sun-Times photos from this week in news

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Religion

PHOTOS: Ash Wednesday in Chicago

Commuters were able to receive ashes Wednesday at some train stations, platforms and at O’Hare and Midway airports.

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Kaylee Huang (center), who is in the seventh grade at Robert Healy Elementary School, performs with Janet Mei (right), a sixth grader, during a Lunar New Year celebration at Robert Healy Elementary School in the Bridgeport neighborhood, Thursday, Feb. 8.

Picture Chicago: 11 must-see Sun-Times photos from this week in news

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Pro-Palestinian activists celebrate and march in the Loop after the Chicago City Council narrowly voted in favor of a resolution to call on a cease-fire in Gaza, Wednesday, Jan. 31.

Picture Chicago: 21 Sun-Times photos from this week in news

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Joliet police work the scene where seven people were shot and killed in the 2200 block of West Acres Road in Joliet, Monday, Jan. 22. An eighth man was killed at an apartment complex in unincorporated Joliet Township.

Picture Chicago: 14 must-see Sun-Times photos from this week in news

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Kelly Schoenfelt (center), her daughter Quinlynn (left), 6, and Parker Melowsky, 7, run up Cricket Hill in the Uptwon neighborhood with sleds after a major snowstorm hit the Chicago area, Saturday, Jan. 13.

Picture Chicago: 18 Sun-Times photos from a frigid week in Chicago

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A Palestinian American woman cries as she joins dozens of protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza rally at South Wood and West Taylor streets near the University of Illinois Chicago Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute, where First Lady Jill Biden was touring the facilities to highlight the importance of research in women’s health, Thursday, Thursday, Jan. 11. The woman asked not to be identified.

Picture Chicago: 16 must-see Sun-Times photos from this week in news

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Marcin Rysniak and his 8-year-old daughter Lucja make a snowman near Cricket Hill after nearly an inch of snow fell across the Chicago area, Sunday, Dec. 31.

Picture Chicago: 8 must-see news photos from the first week of 2024

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Firefighters carry tanks after the Chicago Fire Department put out a fire and rescued residents of Edison Apartments in the 1000 block of West Foster Avenue in the Edgewater neighborhood, Friday, Dec. 29.

Picture Chicago: 11 news photos from the last full week of 2023

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