On the second day of a record-breaking heatwave in the Chicago area, a man living on Lower Wacker Drive receives cold bottled water from The Night Ministry’s street medicine van, Thursday, Aug. 24. The man agreed to be photographed but asked not to be identified. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)
Children cool off and play in the Crown Fountain in Millennium Park as record-breaking high temperatures hit the Chicago area, Wednesday, Aug. 23. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)
Eliannys Piña, an asylum-seeker from Venezuela, wipes the face of her 9-year-old son, Elias, as the family sits outside the Grand Crossing District police station on the South Side, Monday, Aug. 21. Elias and his 6-year-old sister said they were turned away from a Chicago Public School on the district’s first day. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)
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