Michael Bennett gets emotional as he sits next to his wife, Lauren Bennett, who was shot twice in her hip and back during the Highland Park Fourth of July parade massacre, during a news conference in Northbrook about lawsuits filed in connection with the shooting, Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 28. The Bennetts are among the plaintiffs who, in the cases filed in Lake County, are suing parties they say share responsibility for the mass shooting that left seven people dead. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)
The Chicago skyline seen from Montrose Harbor on the North Side, Wednesday, Sept. 28. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)
Dressed as animals, climate activists drop to the ground during the “Stayin’ Alive Act of Civil DISCObedience” outside the Chase Tower in the Loop during the Global Climate Strike, Friday, Sept. 23. Over a hundred climate activists from a dozen climate justice organizations started marching from Pritzker Park and stopped at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Chase Tower, and Federal Plaza to demand the U.S. Federal Reserve to “protect the US from the economic risks of the climate crisis.” (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)
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