TERESA CRAWFORD

Associated Press
Sharon Price John, President and CEO of Build-A-Bear Workshop, poses for a photo Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Capybaras take their turn as the holiday season’s ‘it’ animal
Capybaras are having a big moment. The world’s largest rodent is the latest in a long line of “it” animals to get star treatment during the holiday season.
 
Chicago Bird Collision Monitors Director Annette Prince holds an injured Nashville warbler, a kind of migrating songbird, that likely struck a glass window pane Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, in downtown Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
Avian enthusiasts try to counter the deadly risk of Chicago high-rises for migrating birds
Each fall and spring, volunteers dedicated to rescuing injured birds find hundreds on the streets of Chicago that have crashed into buildings. Some are hurt, many are killed.
 
This photo taken from aerial video by WLS-TV/ABC 7 Chicago shows law enforcement gathering after multiple sheriff’s deputies were shot while responding to a home Wednesday, June 12, 2024, in Dixon, Ill. Authorities say the suspect was also wounded. (WLS-TV/ABC 7 Chicago via AP)
3 deputies shot while responding to northern Illinois home, suspect also wounded, official says
Authorities say three sheriff’s deputies have been shot while responding to a northern Illinois home.
 
Brook Nugent poses with her twin daughters Maisie, left, and Sabrina, right, in front of a giant flag on display outside the National Flag Foundation in Waubeka, Wis., on June 9, 2024. Old Glory is venerated annually in Waubeka, the small town that lays claim to the first Flag Day. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)
Americans celebrate their flag every year, and the holiday was born in Wisconsin
Each June, Waubeka, Wisconsin, venerates one of the nation’s more enduring symbols with a holiday that escapes the notice of many Americans. Flag Day commemorates June 14, 1777, when Congress decreed the flag’s design.
 
Chicago police personnel keep watch while crews disassemble the pro-Palestinian encampment in the quad at DePaul University's Lincoln Park campus in Chicago, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Police dismantle pro-Palestinian encampment at DePaul University in Chicago
Police have dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment at DePaul University in Chicago. The move on Thursday comes less than a week after the school’s president said public safety was at risk.
 
A voter braves a cold rain running to cast a ballot during the Spring election Tuesday, April 2, 2024, in Fox Point, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Biden and Trump win Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and Wisconsin primaries
Voters in four states weighed in on their parties’ presidential nominees, a largely symbolic vote now that both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have locked up the Democratic and Republican nominations.
 
The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks to attendees at the inaugural Sunday Dinner event, hosted by the South Carolina Democratic Party's Black Caucus, Sunday, March 27, 2022, in Columbia, S.C. Jackson plans to step down from leading the Chicago civil rights organization Rainbow PUSH Coalition he founded in 1971. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard, File)
Jesse Jackson to step down as head of civil rights organization Rainbow PUSH
The Rev. Jesse Jackson plans to step down from leading the Chicago civil rights organization Rainbow PUSH Coalition he founded in 1971.
 
Slain Chinese scholar’s dad says her body may never be found
The father of a slain Chinese scholar says his family understands they may never get to bring his daughter’s missing remains back to China from Illinois.