Vice President Kamala Harris is seen speaking to a crowd at an event at the Air Zoo in Portage, MI., just a few days before President Biden announced his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Harris. (For The Washington Post)
Michigan State University students embrace one another after laying flowers at the Sparty statue on campus, the morning after a man with no known connections to university went on campus and shot eight people, killing three, before fatally shooting himself during a confrontation with police. (For The Wall Street Journal)
A voter is seen casting a ballot during the 2024 Michigan Presidential Primary at a voting precinct n Dearborn, MI. President Biden won the Michigan primary but lost votes from some who are angry over his support of Israel’s military campaign against Hamas. Democratic voters in heavily Arab-American suburbs of Detroit and elsewhere chose “uncommitted” on the ballot in protest of Biden’s foreign policy. (For The Wall Street Journal)
James Hill, father of Brittany Hill, cries after speaking at a press confernce outside of Chicago Police Headquarters on June 6, 2020. Members of the Hill family announced they would be pursuing a lawsuit against the CPD after a video was leaked showing 24-year-old, Brittany Hill, being shot and killed while holding her 1-year-old daughter. (For the Chicago Trubune)
Residents of Grand Haven, MI., are seen at a drag show during the city's first Pride Fest. Organizers had hoped the festival would attract at least 500 attendees to the city of 11,000 people, but instead the drag show, dance party and vendor-filled streets drew thousands. For many, it was a shocking rebuttal of the increasing hostility toward the LGBTQ community seen nationwide as well as in the region. (For AP News)
Protesters are seen near Ferris State University in Big Rapids, MI in April 2023. Protesters came out to the university's campus to show their objections to a proposed site for the Gotion battery plant after a panel discussion on the proposed site was made virtual. (For The Wall Street Journal)
Alice watches the 2017 solar eclipse in amazement at Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago on August 21, 2017. It was the first time she had experienced or seen anything like the eclipse.
Sandra Abrevaya helps her husband, Brian Wallach, walk from their patio to the house after talking with a reporter. Wallach was diagnosed with ALS at age 37 and since then he and his wife have galvanized what is likely the most successful patient advocacy campaign of the 21st century with their non-profit, I AM ALS. (For STAT News)
Roberto Almodovar hugs his aunts, Mary Rodriguez, left, and Gladys Ramirez, right, after being released from custody after more than 20 years in prison at the Cook County Jail on April 14, 2017 in Chicago. Almodovar was framed for a double homicide by a Chicago police detective in 1994. (For the Chicago Tribune)
Tammy Duckworth talks with Dixie Payne, Carolyn Hixon and Gwen Frattick in Danville, IL., during her 2016 campaign for Senate after four years in the House. (For The Guardian)
Demonstrators gathered at a protest in Millennium Park following the police shootings of two black men in July of 2016 in Chicago, IL. This was the fifth day of on-going protests across the city.
The Edwards Power Station is seen at dusk in Peoria, IL. For years, Peoria residents, especially on the city's southside, have dealt with the affects of pollution from the coal powered plant. A workforce training program, funded from a historic settlement from the Clean Air Act citizen suit against the Edwards plant, is giving new opportunities to residents. (For the NRDC)
U.S. Representative for Illinois 3rd congressional district, Daniel Lipinski, is seen speaking after poll results showed him in the lead to be re-elected on Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at Flagg Creek Country Club in Countryside, IL. (For The Chicago Tribune)
Michael Waldron, Fire Captain of the GR Homeless Outreach Team, is seen inspecting a tent in November 2023 in the woods next to Oak Grove Cemetery in Grand Rapids, MI. The woods are a popular place for unhouse people to stay, where they are less likely to be seen and can stay for longer periods of time without having to move locations every day. (For The Wall Street Journal)
Litzy Blazys, center, waits while her dress is fluffed by her mother, Elizabeth, left, and her cousin, before the start of her Quinceanera ceremony at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines, IL.
Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi of Schaumburg, center, cheers at a watch party for his run for the seat for the 8th Congressional District, on Tuesday, November 8, 2016 in Schaumburg, IL. (For The Chicago Tribune)
Customer, Thomas Coon, is seen shopping at the Family Fare grocery store in Wyoming, MI. Consumers are dealing with the rapidly increases cost of food items from mustard to cheese as inflation accelerates. (For The Wall Street Journal)
A woman named Valarie becomes emotional as she is about to be baptized by being submerged in Lake Michigan near North Ave. Beach by members of the Moody Baptist Church on August 27, 2017 in Chicago.
A man walks through a shaft of light on an unseasonably warm day in February 2017 in downtown Chicago.
Sousaphones Against Hate band members play music during a protest outside of the Trump Tower on inauguration night, January 20, 2017 in Chicago.
Children pose for a photo while bathing and washing clothes in a creek in Karawa, The Democratic Republic of Congo.
A teacher gives a high-five to a student at the School for the Deaf after completing a card matching game during a one-on-one class in a village outside of Hanoi, Vietnam.
Kids are seen playing a pick-up game of basketball at one of the only parks in Dolton, a south suburb of the city of Chicago, on a summer evening in August 2016.
Students are seen waiting in an attendence line in the small school in the River of Life village located outside of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
A girl is caught picking her nose before the start of the Fourth of July Bike Parade in Pemberville, Ohio. The kids spent the morning decorating their bikes in red, white and blue before going for a ride around town, which ended with Popsicles and juice boxes.
The Springfield Blue Devils cheerleaders preform on the sidelines during a football game in Holland, OH.
Ashlee Dean Wells smiles with her child, Nova, 5, near their home in Evanston, IL. Wells and her partner have chosen to not define their childrens’ gender as a part of gender-neutral parenting. (For Quartz)
Brett Flowers throws a crab cage into the marsh on Hilton Head Island at sunset in May 2016 while on vacation with his family.
John Motter's reflection is seen in his combine while he harvests his soybean fields in Hancock County, OH.
A young Congolese boy takes a bite of his orange in his families’ farm field in Karawa, The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
A woman chops and prepares cuts of meat at the Central Market in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Joe carries garlic to the washing station at his organic farm, Blue Island Organic Sustainable Farm, in Blue Island, IL.
Two young boys use a bike to wheel logs from a tree back to their home in Karawa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.