Tallula Loeb, 9, left, and brother Felix Loeb, 7, of Ojai, California, eat cereal at 6 a.m. after crossing the marsh to secure a spot to watch the Saltwater Cowboys swim ponies during slack tide from Assateague Island to Chincoteague Island on July 26, 2023, in the 98th annual Chincoteague Pony Swim on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The Loeb family flew from California to watch the famous Chincoteague Pony Swim. (Tess Crowley / The Virginian-Pilot)
Michelle Lee, best friend of Red, left, embraces organizer of the vigil Aliyah Mason, right, in tears while staring at pictures and words hung up in memory of Red during the LGBTQ+ organization TaskForce’s candlelit vigil on Sept. 11, 2024, honoring Red, a transgender woman who was shot and killed early Sunday morning on Sept. 8, 2024, in the West Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago. This vigil is the second one honoring Red after signs were torn down following the first vigil, which was held on Sunday Sept. 8, 2024. The organization thought it would be safer to hold a new vigil in their parking lot. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
University of Michigan fans cheered and rushed the field after Michigan beat rival Ohio State Nov. 27. The last time Michigan beat Ohio State was 2011. Tess Crowley/College Fans Live.
Alilah Carter, 5, blows a bug off her paint pallette at TRAP HOUSE Chicago’s Crime Drought booth at The Chicago Teachers Union’s second annual Back-to-School Summer Jam in Chicago on Aug. 17, 2024. The event provided free school supplies, books, haircuts, health screenings and activities for students. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Brian Shariak, of Waterford, Michigan, waits to watch Former President Donald J. Trump arrive in his plane at a Get Out the Vote Rally and campaign event at the Elite Jet Center in Waterford Township, Michigan, USA, 17 February 2024. (Tess Crowley/EPA)
Since Oct. 8, 2021, survivors of late University of Michigan athletic doctor Robert Anderson have been camping outside of University President Mark Schlissel’s house in protest against the University’s handling of the nearly 1,000 individuals who have come forward with sexual assault allegations against Anderson. Jonathan Vaughn, the Anderson survivor and former Michigan football player who has been leading the protest, has been camping out in front of President Schlissel’s house for 28 days by Nov. 5. Tess Crowley/The Michigan Daily.
Hampton Roads drag queen Lola Monroe, right, applies makeup in a dressing room with drag queen Gillette Belladonna before performing at NorVa's Studio 54 PrideFest Block Party in Norfolk, Va. on Friday, June 23, 2023. (Tess Crowley / The Virginian-Pilot)
A Belleville cheerleader is overcome with emotion after a MHSAA playoff district final high school football game at Belleville High School on Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. Belleville won the game over Saline, 65-14. (Tess Crowley | For MLive.com)
Washington delegate Sophia Danenberg cries while Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris accepts the presidential nomination at the United Center during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 22, 2024. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
John Willis, 12, left, looks in awe at a blewit mushroom that Gino Albert, right, found with the Illinois Mycological Association at the St. Mihiel Woods-East nature preserve in Tinley Park on Oct. 26, 2024. Within the past four months, Willis has acquired an interest in mycology, and recently checked out 17 books about mushroom hunting from the Chicago Public Library. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Mirna Yamileth Valladares Flores holds son Ruber Aviel Ortez Valladares, 4, for a portrait at her home in Norfolk, Virginia on Saturday, July 29, 2023. Valladares speaks English “less than very well,” which has created difficulties getting services around the Hampton Roads area. (Tess Crowley / The Virginian-Pilot)
University of Michigan students celebrate Holi on Palmer Field March 20, 2022.
Attendees yell toward the media at Former President Donald J. Trump’s Get Out the Vote Rally and campaign event at the Elite Jet Center in Waterford Township, Michigan, USA, 17 February 2024. (Tess Crowley/EPA)
Chappell Roan performs on the T-Mobile stage at Lollapalooza in Chicago’s Grant Park on Aug. 1, 2024. Roan drew Lollapalooza's largest crowd ever, according to organizers. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
People stare at video cameras as Galantis performs at Perry’s stage at Lollapalooza in Chicago’s Grant Park on Aug. 2, 2024. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Arevalo’s Exports employee Margarita Bravo watches passerby outside the shop on 26th Street in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago on Sept. 10, 2024. To many, Little Village is not what it used to be. A Starbucks will be opening up in one of the new storefronts that replaced small businesses in the Little Village Plaza, the shopping center adjacent to the neighborhood’s iconic arch, a symbol of the Mexican community in Chicago. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Member of the Trojan Phlyers Flight Demonstration Team Robert Johnson flies the wing position in a North American T-28 Trojan as Chip Lamb flies the flight lead position in a North American T-28 Trojan, above, ahead of The Chicago Air and Water Show in the airspace above Gary, Indiana on Aug. 8, 2024. The Chicago Air and Water Show, which includes the Trojan Flyers Flight Demonstration Team, takes place along the lakefront 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 10 and Sunday, Aug. 11. Rehearsal is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 9. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Brik Yantis, 2, of Piper City, right, waits for the auction of Olivia Shike’s, 18, of Sedorus, Land of Lincoln Grand Champion Barrow and Grand Champion Barrow, Billy, left, in the Governor’s Sale of Champions during Governor’s Day at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield on Aug. 14, 2024. Yantis is a part of the family that raised Billy. The Governor’s Sale of Champions auctions off the best livestock as judged by competitions throughout the fair. Grand Champion is the highest distinction youth exhibiting livestock in Illinois can earn. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Callia Muhammad, 11, Queen of Distinction and Miss Chicago for the American Royal Beauties Pageant, talks to her mother before participating in the 2024 Chicago Labor Day Parade in the Pullman neighborhood of Chicago on Aug. 31, 2024. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Members of Dance Force Elite cheer before the start of the 95th Annual Bud Billiken Parade, the largest African American parade in the United States, in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood on Aug. 10, 2024. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Christina Morsy holds son August Morsy, 6, as son Anthony Morsy, 9, draws in the background while they wait for a free haircut at The Chicago Teachers Union’s second annual Back-to-School Summer Jam in Chicago on Aug. 17, 2024. The event provided free school supplies, books, haircuts, health screenings and activities for students. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Dancers perform before the start of the Civic Ceremony hosted by the Consul General of Mexico in Chicago, Ambassador Reyna Torres Mendivil, at El Grito Chicago, a two-day festival in celebration of Mexican Independence Day, at Grant Park’s Butler Field in Chicago on Sept. 15, 2024. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Eufemia Almanza holds grandson Hugo Gallardo, born 2 pounds, 5.7 ounces at birth on Sept. 7 in Mount Sinai Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Chicago on Oct. 4, 2024. Hugo wears a feeding tube through his nose. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
A firefighter surveys the damage to a home in the 9100 block of Granby Street from a fire early Monday morning in Norfolk, Virginia on Monday, August 14, 2023. Three homes were severely damaged by the fire. (Tess Crowley / The Virginian-Pilot)
Reginald Clay Jr.’s father Reginald Clay Sr., left, protests for his late son outside the 11th district Chicago Police Department office in the Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago on Oct. 26, 2024, against police Superintendent Larry Snelling’s stance that CPD officer Fernando Ruiz should not be dismissed for not deescalating in the fatal shooting of Reginald Clay Jr. on April 15, 2023. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Donna Pearson-Simmons, 56, center, receives kisses from granddaughter Emari Reed, 3, left, and grandson Keant’e Boyd Jr., 6, right, outside their home in Back of the Yards, Chicago on July 26, 2024. When Keant’e’s mother Erica died in May 2023 she and her children were already living with Erica’s mother, Donna, so following the death Donna moved into the living room with her husband so that Keant’e and his three-year-old sister could live in their room. Donna does not let her grandchildren bike further than a block from home. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Isaac Langreck, 30, and Cassie Langreck, 28, from Wisconsin, pose at Lollapalooza in Chicago’s Grant Park on Aug. 2, 2024. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Tallula Loeb, 9, left, and brother Felix Loeb, 7, of Ojai, California, eat cereal at 6 a.m. after crossing the marsh to secure a spot to watch the Saltwater Cowboys swim ponies during slack tide from Assateague Island to Chincoteague Island on July 26, 2023, in the 98th annual Chincoteague Pony Swim on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The Loeb family flew from California to watch the famous Chincoteague Pony Swim. (Tess Crowley / The Virginian-Pilot)
Michelle Lee, best friend of Red, left, embraces organizer of the vigil Aliyah Mason, right, in tears while staring at pictures and words hung up in memory of Red during the LGBTQ+ organization TaskForce’s candlelit vigil on Sept. 11, 2024, honoring Red, a transgender woman who was shot and killed early Sunday morning on Sept. 8, 2024, in the West Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago. This vigil is the second one honoring Red after signs were torn down following the first vigil, which was held on Sunday Sept. 8, 2024. The organization thought it would be safer to hold a new vigil in their parking lot. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
University of Michigan fans cheered and rushed the field after Michigan beat rival Ohio State Nov. 27. The last time Michigan beat Ohio State was 2011. Tess Crowley/College Fans Live.
Alilah Carter, 5, blows a bug off her paint pallette at TRAP HOUSE Chicago’s Crime Drought booth at The Chicago Teachers Union’s second annual Back-to-School Summer Jam in Chicago on Aug. 17, 2024. The event provided free school supplies, books, haircuts, health screenings and activities for students. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Brian Shariak, of Waterford, Michigan, waits to watch Former President Donald J. Trump arrive in his plane at a Get Out the Vote Rally and campaign event at the Elite Jet Center in Waterford Township, Michigan, USA, 17 February 2024. (Tess Crowley/EPA)
Since Oct. 8, 2021, survivors of late University of Michigan athletic doctor Robert Anderson have been camping outside of University President Mark Schlissel’s house in protest against the University’s handling of the nearly 1,000 individuals who have come forward with sexual assault allegations against Anderson. Jonathan Vaughn, the Anderson survivor and former Michigan football player who has been leading the protest, has been camping out in front of President Schlissel’s house for 28 days by Nov. 5. Tess Crowley/The Michigan Daily.
Hampton Roads drag queen Lola Monroe, right, applies makeup in a dressing room with drag queen Gillette Belladonna before performing at NorVa's Studio 54 PrideFest Block Party in Norfolk, Va. on Friday, June 23, 2023. (Tess Crowley / The Virginian-Pilot)
A Belleville cheerleader is overcome with emotion after a MHSAA playoff district final high school football game at Belleville High School on Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. Belleville won the game over Saline, 65-14. (Tess Crowley | For MLive.com)
Washington delegate Sophia Danenberg cries while Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris accepts the presidential nomination at the United Center during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 22, 2024. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
John Willis, 12, left, looks in awe at a blewit mushroom that Gino Albert, right, found with the Illinois Mycological Association at the St. Mihiel Woods-East nature preserve in Tinley Park on Oct. 26, 2024. Within the past four months, Willis has acquired an interest in mycology, and recently checked out 17 books about mushroom hunting from the Chicago Public Library. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Mirna Yamileth Valladares Flores holds son Ruber Aviel Ortez Valladares, 4, for a portrait at her home in Norfolk, Virginia on Saturday, July 29, 2023. Valladares speaks English “less than very well,” which has created difficulties getting services around the Hampton Roads area. (Tess Crowley / The Virginian-Pilot)
University of Michigan students celebrate Holi on Palmer Field March 20, 2022.
Attendees yell toward the media at Former President Donald J. Trump’s Get Out the Vote Rally and campaign event at the Elite Jet Center in Waterford Township, Michigan, USA, 17 February 2024. (Tess Crowley/EPA)
Chappell Roan performs on the T-Mobile stage at Lollapalooza in Chicago’s Grant Park on Aug. 1, 2024. Roan drew Lollapalooza's largest crowd ever, according to organizers. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
People stare at video cameras as Galantis performs at Perry’s stage at Lollapalooza in Chicago’s Grant Park on Aug. 2, 2024. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Arevalo’s Exports employee Margarita Bravo watches passerby outside the shop on 26th Street in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago on Sept. 10, 2024. To many, Little Village is not what it used to be. A Starbucks will be opening up in one of the new storefronts that replaced small businesses in the Little Village Plaza, the shopping center adjacent to the neighborhood’s iconic arch, a symbol of the Mexican community in Chicago. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Member of the Trojan Phlyers Flight Demonstration Team Robert Johnson flies the wing position in a North American T-28 Trojan as Chip Lamb flies the flight lead position in a North American T-28 Trojan, above, ahead of The Chicago Air and Water Show in the airspace above Gary, Indiana on Aug. 8, 2024. The Chicago Air and Water Show, which includes the Trojan Flyers Flight Demonstration Team, takes place along the lakefront 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 10 and Sunday, Aug. 11. Rehearsal is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 9. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Brik Yantis, 2, of Piper City, right, waits for the auction of Olivia Shike’s, 18, of Sedorus, Land of Lincoln Grand Champion Barrow and Grand Champion Barrow, Billy, left, in the Governor’s Sale of Champions during Governor’s Day at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield on Aug. 14, 2024. Yantis is a part of the family that raised Billy. The Governor’s Sale of Champions auctions off the best livestock as judged by competitions throughout the fair. Grand Champion is the highest distinction youth exhibiting livestock in Illinois can earn. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Callia Muhammad, 11, Queen of Distinction and Miss Chicago for the American Royal Beauties Pageant, talks to her mother before participating in the 2024 Chicago Labor Day Parade in the Pullman neighborhood of Chicago on Aug. 31, 2024. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Members of Dance Force Elite cheer before the start of the 95th Annual Bud Billiken Parade, the largest African American parade in the United States, in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood on Aug. 10, 2024. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Christina Morsy holds son August Morsy, 6, as son Anthony Morsy, 9, draws in the background while they wait for a free haircut at The Chicago Teachers Union’s second annual Back-to-School Summer Jam in Chicago on Aug. 17, 2024. The event provided free school supplies, books, haircuts, health screenings and activities for students. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Dancers perform before the start of the Civic Ceremony hosted by the Consul General of Mexico in Chicago, Ambassador Reyna Torres Mendivil, at El Grito Chicago, a two-day festival in celebration of Mexican Independence Day, at Grant Park’s Butler Field in Chicago on Sept. 15, 2024. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Eufemia Almanza holds grandson Hugo Gallardo, born 2 pounds, 5.7 ounces at birth on Sept. 7 in Mount Sinai Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Chicago on Oct. 4, 2024. Hugo wears a feeding tube through his nose. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
A firefighter surveys the damage to a home in the 9100 block of Granby Street from a fire early Monday morning in Norfolk, Virginia on Monday, August 14, 2023. Three homes were severely damaged by the fire. (Tess Crowley / The Virginian-Pilot)
Reginald Clay Jr.’s father Reginald Clay Sr., left, protests for his late son outside the 11th district Chicago Police Department office in the Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago on Oct. 26, 2024, against police Superintendent Larry Snelling’s stance that CPD officer Fernando Ruiz should not be dismissed for not deescalating in the fatal shooting of Reginald Clay Jr. on April 15, 2023. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Donna Pearson-Simmons, 56, center, receives kisses from granddaughter Emari Reed, 3, left, and grandson Keant’e Boyd Jr., 6, right, outside their home in Back of the Yards, Chicago on July 26, 2024. When Keant’e’s mother Erica died in May 2023 she and her children were already living with Erica’s mother, Donna, so following the death Donna moved into the living room with her husband so that Keant’e and his three-year-old sister could live in their room. Donna does not let her grandchildren bike further than a block from home. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)
Isaac Langreck, 30, and Cassie Langreck, 28, from Wisconsin, pose at Lollapalooza in Chicago’s Grant Park on Aug. 2, 2024. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)