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Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Chicago police officers leave flowers at a memorial for Officer Ella French at South Bell Avenue and West 63rd Street, Monday afternoon, Aug. Toledo was shot March 29 in an alley west of the 2300 block of South Sawyer Avenue in Little Village. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Dozens of protesters march down the Magnificent Mile on the evening of Thursday, Apafter the city of Chicago released videos of 13-year-old Adam Toledo being fatally shot by a Chicago police officer. Throughout it all, Sun-Times visual journalists bore witness to the changing world.Ī masked festival-goer stands among thousands of unmasked people during Mick Jenkins’ show on the second day of Lollapalooza in Grant Park, Friday afternoon, July 30, 2021.
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Out of our control, tornadoes ripped through the Chicago suburbs, while issues that have long plagued the city remain: gun violence, structural inequities, racial injustices - all underscored by the Delta variant and the emergence of Omicron.Īnd despite the lows, several silver linings appeared: businesses and restaurants reopened, music festivals including Lollapalooza and Pitchfork returned and the Chicago Sky brought home the city’s first WNBA championship.Īnd Lake Shore Drive is now Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive, the result of a long effort to rename the iconic roadway after the Black man who was the city’s first permanent, non-indigenous settler. This was the year that showed people that while the world crawled - and continues to crawl - its way back to “normal,” things may be forever changed.Ī national divide over politics and COVID-19 mitigation measures made 2021 feel like a continuation of 2020, but with its own new set of highs and lows.