Picture Chicago: 27 must-see photos from Sun-Times photographers

Spectators watch as in Grant Park, Saturday, July 6, 2024.Timothy Hiatt/For the Sun-TimesPit crews stretch before the on the second day of NASCAR at Grant Park, Sunday, July 7, 2024. | Pat Nabong/Sun-TimesPat Nabong/Sun-TimesErik Jones (43) races past turn 1 during the in Grant Park, Sunday, July 7, 2024.Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-TimesYoung boys wearing cardboard race helmets attend the in Douglass Park, Friday, July 5, 2024.Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-TimesA at Montrose Beach on the North Side, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. Four chicks hatched in the last two weeks, but one was reported missing.Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times at Montrose Beach, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. One of the four recent hatchlings is presumed dead.Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times in her home in the Garfield Park neighborhood, Thursday, June 12, 2024. Mitchell, 15, was shot and killed in the 7100 block of South King Drive in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood Wednesday afternoon when two people approached him, according to a police report. Bussell said her son loved to rap and was a member of a Double Dutch club.Pat Nabong/Sun-TimesMayadet Cruz, a friend of Taylor Casey, hugs a friend while operating a bubble machine during a news conference outside City Hall in the Loop on Casey’s 42nd birthday, where friends and family of Casey gathered to , Thursday, July 11, 2024. Casey was reported missing during a yoga retreat in the Bahamas on June 19. “She’s just a beautiful and amazing person who deserves to be found. Her community loves her and we want her back home,” Cruz said.Pat Nabong/Sun-Times toasts with a fan before the NASCAR Cup Series Grant Park 165 on the second day of NASCAR at Grant Park, Sunday, July 7, 2024. | Pat Nabong/Sun-TimesPat Nabong/Sun-TimesNASCAR fans cheer on Jesse Love (2) as he leads in the final laps during the in Grant Park, Saturday, July 6, 2024.Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-TimesShane Van Gisbergen (97) is showered in water after winning the NASCAR in Grant Park, Saturday, July 6, 2024.Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-TimesMotorcyclists perform during the at Grant Park, Sunday, July 7, 2024.Pat Nabong/Sun-TimesSpectators watch as a around the turn at West Roosevelt Road and South Columbus Drive in The Loop 110 NASCAR Xfinity Series race in Grant Park, Saturday, July 6, 2024.Timothy Hiatt/For the Sun-TimesEdith Renfrow Smith, who will on July 14, bakes a cherry pie at her North Side home, Friday, July 5, 2024.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-TimesEdith Renfrow Smith, who will on July 14, bakes a cherry pie at her North Side home, Friday, July 5, 2024.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-TimesEight-time Grammy Award winner and one of Rolling Stone’s “Greatest Guitarists of All Time,” as part of his “Damn Right Farewell” tour on Saturday, July 6, 2024, in the festival field in Grant Park.Peyton Reich/Sun-TimesA semi navigates during a let up in the rain, Tuesday, July 9, 2024.Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-TimesTwo NASCAR fans attempt to shield themselves from the .Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times after speaking during a news conference at New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church on the South Side to discuss the search for her husband, Rev. Warren Beard, Monday, July 8, 2024. Beard, 53, was last seen July 2 in Joliet.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-TimesA . can be seen next to the Dan Ryan Expressway in the West Loop, Monday, July 8, 2024. As Chicago rolls out the red carpet for the Democratic National Convention next month, the encampment — one of the city’s largest and most visible — is about to be shut down and fenced off for good.Anthony Vazquez/Sun-TimesWorkers with the city’s Department of Water Management to residents in a drive-through at Ridge Park in Beverly, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. Thousands of residents were told not to drink tap water in the Southwest Side communities of Auburn Gresham, Beverly and Morgan Park unless they boil it first due to concern about bacterial contamination.Anthony Vazquez/Sun-TimesD’Andre Carter, of Soul and Smoke, outside the United Center, Thursday, July 11, 2024.Anthony Vazquez/Sun-TimesPeter Gerousis, co-owner of the Oak Park diner Cozy Corner, speaks to a reporter at the restaurant at 138 N. Marion St. on Thursday, July 11, 2024. The after 65 years in business. Zubaer Khan/Sun-Times, on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, in downtown Chicago.Peyton Reich/Sun-Times during the NASCAR Chicago Street Race weekend, on Sunday, July 7, 2024.Zubaer Khan/Sun-TimesA sunset illuminates the Chicago skyline seen from Douglass Park, Friday, July 5, 2024.Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times