Pamela Davis, the family paws parent educator and senior/lead trainer at Urban Pooch, works with Murphy at Urban Pooch’s training and fitness center in Lincoln Square, Thursday, April 11, 2024. Davis was teaching Murphy, who is owned by Rebekah Reynolds, an agility sports trainer at Urban Pooch, to be more comfortable around other dogs and strangers.
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Family members mourn in the 2000 block of West 52nd Street after a fatal mass shooting during a gathering the night before on the block in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side, Sunday, April 14, 2024. Ariana Molina, 9, was killed in the 9:30 p.m. Saturday shooting that left 10 other people wounded, including the girl’s mother and three boys, ages 1, 8 and 9.
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Hundreds of family, friends, and community members attend a vigil for the victims of a weekend mass shooting at West 52nd Street and South Damen Avenue in the Back of the Yards, Monday, April 15, 2024.
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A man wipes tears from his face after a vigil for the victims of a weekend mass shooting at West 52nd Street and South Damen Avenue in the Back of the Yards, Monday, April 15, 2024. The attack, which police say was done by gangs, left 9-year-old girl Ariana Molina dead and 10 other people wounded, including her mother and other children.
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Construction workers apply a grey marble cladding to the Obama Presidential Center in Hyde Park Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Unlike the renderings that showed white or cream color, a grey marble is being installed.
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Taylor Swift fans gather outside 33 W. Grand Ave. to see a mural of a giant QR code that links to a YouTube short attached to Swift’s page on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.
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Fire communications operator Amanda Garr hugs George Ma’Ayteh, a retired Chicago Fire Department lieutenant with Engine 109, during a news conference Wednesday at the Office of Emergency Management and Communications on the Near West Side. Garr was the 911 operator who told Paula Anast, Ma’Ayteh’s friend, how to do chest compressions over the phone when Ma’Ayteh suffered a cardiac event in October.
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Shoppers browse through boxes and shelves of items at Bargains In A Box at 1810 5th Ave. in Forest Grove, Friday, April 12, 2024. The retailer plans to close its last store on Sunday.
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker bows his head in prayer during a memorial service for Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago on the South Side, Sunday, April 14, 2024.
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Ald. Jason Ervin (28th) gets emotional as he discusses a resolution honoring Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough, who died earlier this month, during a Chicago City Council meeting at City Hall in the Loop, Wednesday, April 17, 2024.
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An attendee looks at Yigal Ozeri’s hyperrealist painting at EXPO Chicago, Friday, April 12, 2024.
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Christopher Amon, special agent in charge of the ATF in Chicago, speaks inside the city’s new Crime Gun Intelligence Center.
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John Cook, who received medical debt forgiveness, speaks at a press conference on Monday, April 15, 2024 about the forgiveness of medical debt to Illinoisians alongside Gov. J. B. Pritzker and advocates to uplift medical debt relief legislation.
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Esteban Batallán, principal trumpet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, stands with his 1955 Vincent Bach “Mount Vernon” C Trumpet before rehearsing Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Winter Daydreams (or Winter Dreams) Op. 13 with the rest of the CSO orchestra in the Loop, Wednesday, April 17, 2024.
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Dozens of people attend a rally for Dexter Reed ahead of a Chicago Police Board meeting at CPD Headquarters, Thursday, April 18, 2024.
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