VISUALS

Built by Potter Palmer in the 1870s, the original Palmer House was consumed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, little more than a year after its grand opening. Palmer quickly rebuilt and opened the second Palmer House in 1873. It went through one more major renovation in 1925 and is today facing an uncertain future.

That legacy of Chicago and its Monets is explored in the exhibit “Monet and Chicago,” finally on view at the Art Institute after COVID-19 temporarily closed the museum and pushed back the exhibition’s planned spring opening.

Fires on the West Coast have killed at least 23 people, destroyed thousands of buildings, burned old growth redwoods and forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate in communities near the coast. Dozens of people are still missing as of Sept. 12.

Charles St. Clair is the state’s only Black brewery owner. He began planning Black Horizon with friend Kevin Baldus in 2014; Alex Stankus, who is Black Horizon’s brewer, later joined the ownership group.

Ever, the long-awaited restaurant from Curtis Duffy and Michael Muser, opened in Chicago's Fulton Market in July 2020.

Dajore Wilson, 8, was fatally shot on Labor Day, while three adults with her, including her mother, were injured in the attack in Canaryville.

The Rev. Leon Finney Jr., a longtime South Side pastor, activist and developer, died Friday, a longtime friend said. Finney, 82, died at the University of Chicago Medical Center, according to Hermene Hartman, publisher of N’DIGO, and a longtime friend of Finney. Founder of the Woodlawn Organization, Finney made his name opposing the encroachment of the University of Chicago on areas south of the Midway Plaisance.

Classrooms change. Fashions change. Courses change. (Does wood shop still exist?) But for each generation, even during this strangest of times, universal truths persist: School is challenging. It’s scary. It’s delightful. It’s dreadfully boring. Whether we love it or hate it, school shapes us for the rest of our lives. The Tribune’s photographers over the years have captured many of these formative moments.

Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden travels to Kenosha to visit the family of Jacob Blake, whose shooting by police sparked protests within Kenosha community.

The Chicago Zoological Society is working to save rare and endangered Blanding's turtles by breeding the turtles and releasing them into a DuPage County forest preserve west of Chicago.

Sylvia Center, a homeless shelter run by Cornerstone Community Outreach, is reshaping rooms that typically house families into remote learning spaces for children at the shelter.

Red is the color of caution, of danger, of a body on the battlefield, bleeding out. So it was, in a sense, fitting to see buildings around Chicago lit in red Tuesday night to dramatize the hemorrhaging going on in America’s live events industry. Since the COVID-19 pandemic forced us away from one another in mid-March, almost none of the millions of people who put on plays, concerts, trade shows and other in-person happenings has been working.

The businesses that employ them have been in retrenchment mode. A talent drain, as folks scramble for other ways to make money, is imminent. And help from the federal government, these people say, is desperately needed. So the all-volunteer We Make Events / Red Alert project created a new kind of red light district, temporary and nationwide. In Chicago, they lit up buildings including the Vic Theatre and the peristyle in Millennium Park in hopes that supporters of the arts -- those of us eager to get off the couch and back into the world of shared experience -- will ask Congress to pass the RESTART Act. That, they say, would offer a bright white beacon of hope.

Chicago police shot and killed Miguel Vega after officers were fired upon as they got out of their car in the Pilsen neighborhood on the West Side, authorities said.

President Donald Trump will visit Kenosha Tuesday over the objections of the city’s mayor and Wisconsin’s governor, nine days after the police shooting of Jacob Blake spurred protests, violent clashes with law enforcement, the destruction of dozens of businesses and the death of two protesters.

Residents and church members attend a service hosted by Ebenezer AME Church in support of Jacob Blake and his family at the Evanston farmers market lot on Aug. 30, 2020, in Evanston. Blake's grandfather was a pastor at the church and active in the civil rights movement.

Thousands are expected at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 2020, where the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic “I Have A Dream” address in 1963.

People march through downtown Evanston on Aug. 27, 2020, to call attention to the shooting of Jacob Blake by a police officer in Kenosha.

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A violent confrontation between protesters and 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, of Antioch, late on Aug. 25, 2020, in Kenosha.

The heat this week could set records in the Chicago area, but forecasters say they haven’t issued any advisories yet because the humidity is expected to be relatively low. The National Weather Service said high temperatures will close in on 100 degrees daily, usually between 2 and 4 p.m., until Aug. 26, 2020, when a cold front will move in, making weekend temperatures more bearable in northern Illinois.