Shawn Fitzgerald, left, and Moe Mullins watch the sky to see if a home run ball will emerge from Wrigley Field during the Cubs-Twins game on July 18, 2026. It was before the annual barbecue that longtime season ticket holders and bleacher fans Bob Krause and Ken Keefer throw for fans and Wrigley workers at the corner of Waveland and Kenmore avenues. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)
Shawn Fitzgerald, left, and Moe Mullins watch the sky to see if a home run ball will emerge from Wrigley Field during the Cubs-Twins game on July 18, 2026. It was before the annual barbecue that longtime season ticket holders and bleacher fans Bob Krause and Ken Keefer throw for fans and Wrigley workers at the corner of Waveland and Kenmore avenues. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)
An American Airlines jet, left, taxis past a United Airlines jet at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on April 14, 2026. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)
Michael P. McCuskey, then a member of the Illinois State University board of trustees, speaks on April 22, 2014, in Normal. (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune)
A portrait of the late Dolly Parton surrounded by flowers and cards in a memorial sits outside her home Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in Brentwood, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Miguel Vargas, from left, Bryan Hudson, Munetaka Murakami and Drew Romo celebrate the White Sox's 7-4 against the Twins Aug. 28, 2026, in Minneapolis. (Stephen Maturen/Getty)
  • Dolly Parton in New York in 1975. Parton, the country singer, songwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur whose rags-to-riches story, outsize persona and prodigious vision and talent placed her in a class by herself, died in Nashville on Aug. 25, 2026. She was 80. (Jack Manning/The New York Times)
  • A Chicago Bears staff member stands next to a Bears 2026 Rivalries uniform on display at Halas Hall on Aug. 25, 2026, in Lake Forest. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)
  • Students are welcomed on a red carpet by teachers, staff and parents on the first day of school, Aug. 24, 2026, at Leland Elementary in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
  • Margaret Mary, an alumni of Mundelein College with which Loyola merged in 1991, sits next to a newly unveiled statue of Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt at Loyola University Chicago, Aug. 21, 2026. Sister Jean taught at Mundelein before becoming part of Loyola. (Arthur Maiorella/Chicago Tribune)
  • Quarterback Tyler Turner (16) runs a play with the Chicago State Cougars, a new Division I football team, on Aug. 5, 2026, at the school. (Arthur Maiorella/Chicago Tribune)
  • Bowyn Dryer, 7, combs Big Shooter who won Land of Lincoln Grand Champion Steer during the Governors Sale of Champions at the Illinois State Fair on Aug. 19, 2026. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)
  • Gus W. Rickette Sr., the co-founder of Uncle Remus Saucy Fried Chicken, becomes emotional as he arrives at a party celebrating his 100th birthday while seated between his grandsons Sir Charles Rickette, left, and Quintin Rickette for a motorcade down West Madison Street on Aug. 11, 2026, in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
Jamie Gore. (Jamie Gore/provided)
Offerings are displayed at Roll and Dough at the Yellow Green Farmers Market in Hollywood on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel)
Candidates for Chicago Board of Education president, clockwise from top left, Hilario Domínguez, Victor Henderson, Jessica Biggs, Sendhil Revuluri and Jennifer Custer. (Chicago Tribune)
An Evanston police vehicle. (Brian L. Cox/for Pioneer Press)
A government helicopter conducts a rescue mission amidst the devastation left by flash flooding in Nepal’s Nuwakot district, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Empty bottles of Malört line a shelf at an Irving Park neighborhood bar in Chicago, Jan. 8, 2014. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune)
An airplane flies near the EdgeConneX data center campus, right, on July 22, 2026, in Elk Grove Village. Two of the company’s data centers near O’Hare International Airport were the subject of property tax appeals battles this year brought by the Cook County assessor. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
Residents are rescued by helicopter from the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina Sept. 1, 2005, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, Pool)
Graffiti is seen on the side of a building in downtown Gary off Broadway on Aug. 27, 2026. The city has crews out removing graffiti throughout Gary, which will be supplemented through a grant from the Lake County Board of Commissioners. (Maya Wilkins/Post-Tribune)
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