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Jacqueline Jackson, window of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, greets visitors with her family during the second day of public visitation at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #JacquelineJackson #JesseJackson #RevJesseJackson #RainbowPUSH #Chicago

People attend a public visitation for the Rev. Jesse Jackson at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #JesseJackson #RevJesseJackson #JesseJacksonMemorial #Chicago #RainbowPUSH @apnews.com

The Rev. Jesse Jackson prays at the annual Mayor Harold Washington remembrance and recognition wreath laying ceremony Monday, Nov. 25, 2019, at Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago. (Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune) #JesseJackson #TheRevJesseJackson #TheReverendJesseJackson #Chicago @chicagotribune.com

Photos of retro '70s-themed orchids show in Chicago CHICAGO (AP) — Thousands of orchids fill the greenhouse of the the Chicago Botanic Garden for its 12th annual Orchid Show, themed “Feelin’ Groovy,” where installations inspired by the 1970s — includin...

Orchids adorn a Volkswagen Beetle as finishing touches are placed on the 12th annual Chicago Botanic Garden Orchid Show, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, in Glencoe, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #orchids #ChicagoBotanicGarden #flowers #orchidshow #greenhouse #Volkswagen #botany #garden #plants

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Washington Post Lays Off More Than 300 Journalists

Democracy Dies in Darkness.

"Some of the departures shocked the newsroom, including that of a Ukraine correspondent who was laid off while working in a war zone, and the cutting of all staff photographers."

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The Baháʼí House of Worship is seen from above on a snowy Friday, Jan. 30, 2026, in Wilmette, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #Bahai #snow #dronephotography #winter #weather #Chicago @apnews.com

Border Patrol commander #GregoryBovino is expected to leave #Minneapolis as the Trump administration reshuffles leadership of its immigration enforcement operation and scales back the federal presence after a second fatal shooting by federal officers. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

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Romeo Garcia blows on his hand inside his tent as #OrangeTentProject workers distribute supplies to the unhoused population on a dangerously cold Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, in #Chicago. (@apnews.com/Photo/Erin Hooley) #Chicagoweather #PolarVortex #winterweather #coldweather #freezing #cold #unhoused

Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams and his team fall to the Los Angeles Rams and quarterback Matthew Stafford in the NFL Divisional Round game Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, in Chicago. (@apnews.com Photo/Erin Hooley) #ChicagoBears #LARams #CalebWilliams #MatthewStafford #football #LosAngelesRams

Chicago Bears, 31, Green Bay Packers, 27, in an NFL wild card football game Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, at Soldier Field in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #ChicagoBears #GreenBayPackers #Bears #NFL #football @apnews.com @chibears.bsky.social @greenbaypackers.bsky.social

As another year on staff with the Associated Press came to a close, I looked through my images from 2025 and reflected. Words and pictures, here:

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Chicago Bears wide receiver DJ Moore celebrates his team’s overtime win after catching a touchdown to win an NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, in Chicago. (@apnews.com/Erin Hooley) #ChicagoBears #Bears #DaBears #GreenBayPackers #Packers #DJMoore #CalebWilliams

Church Nativity scenes add zip ties, gas masks and ICE to protest immigration raids Nativity scenes at some churches are sparking fierce debates. At Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, the baby Jesus lies with zip-tied wrists in the kind of emergency blankets given ICE detainee...

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A pair of snowy owls rests on a pier near Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary in November 2025 in Chicago. (@apnews.com/Erin Hooley) #snowyowls #owls #birdsofprey #birds #birding #Chicago #ChicagoOrnithologicalSociety #MontrosePointBirdSanctuary #LakeMichigan #MontroseBeach

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Chicago Bears, 31, Pittsburgh Steelers, 28, in an NFL football game Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, in Chicago. @apnews.com/Erin Hooley #ChicagoBears #PittsburghSteelers #Steelers #MasonRudolph #AaronRodgers #CalebWilliams #SoldierField #NFL #football @chibears.bsky.social @pittsburghsteeler.bsky.social

A Chicago street vendor couple has a defiant response to immigration arrests: Stick to the routine Ofelia Herrera and Rafael Hernandez have refused to alter their routines as street food vendors during an immigration enforcement blitz in Chicago that has caused many without legal status to stay hom...

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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

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These are the sights and sounds of Trump's immigration crackdown in Chicago For nearly two months, federal agents have been carrying out surprise raids in Chicago in pursuit of the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, emerging from unmarked vehicles in neighborhoods thr...

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Maria Guzman, left, and Sergio Rocha, parents of young children, comfort each other outside of Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center after federal immigration agents took a daycare teacher Nov. 5, 2025, in #Chicago. @apnews.com Photo/Erin Hooley #immigration #ICE

Senior U.S. Border Patrol official Greg Bovino speaks to Associated Press reporters during an interview Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, in Rosemont, Ill. (@apnews.com Photo/Erin Hooley) #GregoryBovino #Bovino #GregBovino #BorderPatrol #CustomsandBorderProtection #CBP #immigration

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In Chicago, an immense show of force signals a sharp escalation in White House immigration crackdown A raid last month in Chicago has signaled a sharp escalation in the White House’s immigration crackdown and ratcheted up tensions in a city already on edge.

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Protesters and law enforcement, including chief patrol agent Gregory Bovino, clash at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Ill., Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #Chicago #immigration #GregoryBovino #Bovino #Broadview #borderpatrol #Trump #ICE
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Chicago Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong celebrates his team’s win after catching a fly out from San Diego Padres' Freddy Fermin, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #ChicagoCubs #Cubs #PeteCrowArmstrong #SanDiegoPadres #Padres #baseball #MLB #wildcard

The Chicago Cubs clinch home-field advantage for their Wild Card series against the San Diego Padres next week.
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Chicago Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong celebrates with Kyle Tucker after making Cubs history with 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases in a season Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #PeteCrowArmstrong #3030Club #SammySosa #ChicagoCubs #Cubs #baseball #MLB #homerun

Jessica Aguilar and her son John are emotional after leaving diabetes medication for her husband Carlos, who she said was taken by unidentified agents on his way to work, at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Sept. 24, 2025, in Broadview, Ill. #immigration #ICE #Broadview #Chicago @apnews.com

Angelica Ornelas walks in the #MexicanIndependenceDay Parade, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025, in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago. Organizers considered canceling because of threats by President Trump, but thousands of people turned out anyway. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) @apnews.com

Demonstrators protest President Trump’s "Operation Midway Blitz" and the presence of ICE, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #Chicago #MidwayBlitz #Trump #PresidentTrump #immigration #ICE #protest #demonstration #march #politics #protesters #sanctuarycity @apnews.com

Chicago Bears wide receiver DJ Moore prepares to take the field before an NFL football game against the Minnesota Vikings Monday, Sept. 8, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #DJMoore #ChicagoBears #Bears #MinnesotaVikings #Vikings #NFL #football #SoldierField @apnews.com