Picture Chicago: 12 photos you might have missed this week
A periodical cicada flies away from Stephanie Adams, plant healthcare leader at the Morton Arboretum, Friday, May 17, 2024. The periodical cicadas have emerged in the Chicago area for the first time in 17 years.
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Customers mill around the house ware section of Wayfair on its opening day at Edens Plaza in Wilmette, Ill., Thursday, May 23, 2024. The company that sells home products opened its first large-format, physical store, which is 150,000 square feet, to hundreds of customers Thursday morning.
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Megan Thee Stallion performs at the United Center, Friday, May 17, 2024.
Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Chris Earll, a Bears season ticket holder, shows off his signed Dick Butkus football outside of his office in Bedford Park, Ill., Friday, May 17, 2024.
Zubaer Khan/Sun-Times
Piping plover Green Dot eats a worm in the area sectioned off for the endangered species on Montrose Beach on the North Side, Thursday, May 23, 2024. Searocket, a female piping plover, was seen at the beach Wednesday morning.
Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
A cicada sits atop a fence post in Aurora, Ill. Wednesday afternoon, May 22, 2024.
Brian Ernst/Sun-Times
A veteran pays respects near a memorial honoring marines killed in Iraq and Afghanistan outside the Joseph J. McCarthy Reserve Center in North Park, Friday, May 17, 2024.
Pat Nabong/Sun-Times
Police watch from above as Darien Harris speaks about justice for those that are wrongly convicted during a rally outside the 18th District police station on the North Side, Sunday, May 19, 2024.
A graduating School of the Art Institute student holds up a Palestinian flag before accepting their diploma during SAIC’s commencement ceremony at Wintrust Arena, Monday, May 20, 2024.
Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times
A group of City Council members gather around Ald. Walter Burnett, Jr. (27th) after a City Council meeting at City Hall, Wednesday, May 22, 2024. | Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times
A Chicago Fire Department helicopter flies overhead during a water rescue demonstration by the Chicago Fire Department at Navy Pier, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. | Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times