Dennis Carlotto of South Holland walks through the closed St. Mary of the Assumption Parish in Chicago, IL near the suburb Dolton on Friday, May 9, 2025. Newly elected pope Leo XIV used to attend the church in his childhood. The parish closed in 2011 when it combined with the nearby Queen of Apostles Parish, according to a Chicago Catholic article published at the time.
Friends and family of Harris Wolobah walk back to their car after the candlelight vigil mourning the death of Harris in Worcester, MA on Friday, September 8, 2023. Harris, 14, died after eating the Paqui One Chip Challenge, an extremely spicy tortilla chip with marketing daring people to not drink or eat anything else for as long as possible. The One Chip Challenge has since been pulled from shelves.
After three traditional Jewish weddings back-to-back in one night, the three brides (Mrs. Gulmik, Elisheva Furman, and Rimma Linkov) clap as women attending the wedding dance around them on in Brighton, Boston, MA on February 7, 2023.
A biker wheelies through a steaming manhole in Washington, D.C. on November 4, 2023.
Eleanor Gavazzi (left, waving flag) shouts at a rally advocating to keep Steward-owned hospitals Carney Hospital and Nashoba Valley Medical Center open on the front steps of the Massachusetts State House in Boston on Wednesday, August 28, 2024. Gavazzi said Nashoba Valley Medical Center saved her son and mother’s lives, and that it would take her 40 minutes to get to an ER if Nashoba Valley Medical Center closed.
Protesters chant outside the Israeli consulate in Downtown Boston at the end of a march which followed a pro-Palestine rally held by the Boston Coalition for Palestine on Sunday, October 6, 2024.
Aimee Giles-Scott (facing camera) gets a hug after looking at the Gun Violence Memorial Project in Boston City Hall featuring her son Myles Van Frazier on September 17, 2024. He was shot and killed by police in Chicago. Giles-Scott said he was having a bipolar episode.
Judges clean and inspect the underside of a pumpkin for debris as Waylen Vasconcellos, 10 months old (right), watches at the giant pumpkin weigh-off at the Topsfield, MA fair on Friday, October 4, 2024.
James Markis, a Boston College graduate student and chair of Massachusetts College Republicans, poses for a portrait in his Boston apartment in front of a white backdrop on October 18, 2024. On his wall is a flag picturing Donald Trump after an assassination attempt earlier this year in Pennsylvania. Markis said he was looking for wall decor and bought it off of TikTok. Next to him is an icon of Saint Demetrios, which Markis, who practices Greek Orthodoxy, said he derives his first name from.
Beatrice Destine, 42, laid down next to her five children at the Wollaston T stop as people slept outside the station in Quincy, MA on the night of Monday, August 26, 2024. The family are Haitian migrants.
An attendee chants and raises a fist at a pro-Palestine rally held by the Boston Coalition for Palestine in the Boston Common on Sunday, October 6, 2024.
People check out and try couches at the opening day of online furniture marketplace Wayfair's first large-format retail store in Wilmette, IL on Thursday, May 23, 2024.