Hannah Soukup wrote a story about her experience with sexual abuse at the hands of her step-father. After a two years of litigation, Soukup's abuser has been sentenced for his crimes against her: "There’s always a stage of healing where you feel like ‘you made it,’ and I can finally say I’m there,” Soukup said. Photographed at the Kane County Courthouse in Geneva, Ill. on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2023.
Ethologist and conservationist Jane Goodall shows members of the media her 35 year-old stuffed monkey, named Mr. H., at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago on Sept. 13, 2025. Goodall’s appearance in Chicago was part of her last speaking tour before her death on Oct. 1, 2025. (Dominic Di Palermo/Chicago Tribune)
“I have been dancing for about three years with training,” said sophomore dance major Nathan Neal. “I dance because it’s fun, also a good use of my time and a way to express emotion without words.” Photographed at Western Kentucky University’s Cherry Hall on April 24, 2024.
Top: Robert Getz, 82, of Elgin, is a Vietnam Army veteran. Getz said his exposure to herbicides like Agent Orange while serving likely led to his prostate cancer diagnosis. Bottom: Getz, 82, holds a photo of himself taken after his first parachute jump in Army training with the 173rd Airborne Brigade. Getz originally sent the photo to his mother and found it in her purse years later after she died. (Dominic Di Palermo/Chicago Tribune)
Museum of Illusion St. Louis general manager Steve Garmon poses for a photo inside a walk in kaleidoscope with an electronic screen in the City Foundry STL in St. Louis, Mo. on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. The museum holds multiple kaleidoscope exhibits of various sizes and different photo opportunities. (Dominic Di Palermo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
By day, Whit McMahan of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, works with in insurance but for 23 years he has presented as Abraham Lincoln in schools, nursing homes, and even in movies. “I think it’s important for kids to really experience what Lincoln was like,” McMahan said.
Father Kevin Treston poses for a photo at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America in Washington DC. Treston, who has served at the monastery for 57 years, said the "love of God is key..." and explained that prayer is a large part of his daily routine. Photographed on on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022.
Ford has played the electric guitar for five years and also plays the trumpet for WKU’s marching band. “I like the sound of it (the guitar) compared to other instruments,” said sophomore Lukas Ford. “I like the aesthetic. You can really have some crazy looking guitars, you can have your own sound, your own look, it’s very you.” Photographed in WKU’s Fine Arts Center on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023.
B.J. “the pot smoking preacher” Leach, 82, lights his pipe filled with marijuana wile posing for a portrait on Williamsburg City Hall’s front porch in Williamsburg, Kentucky on Oct. 24, 2024. Leach is a proud medical marijuana card holder and often attributes its legality in Kentucky to his activism. A marijuana card in Kentucky does not permit the smoking of the substance, only ingestion.
“I’ve been dancing for I’d say about five years going on,” said freshman Jordan Nunnally. “It started out as a very small habit just for fun. It’s a happy place for me, a coping mechanism, and something I’d use to uplift and inspire. Now I attempt to learn many other dance styles to connect with others. Personally if it wasn’t for dance, I wouldn’t be the person I am and I wouldn’t have the friends I have now. Photographed at Western Kentucky University’s Jody Richards Hall on April 27, 2024.
A cicada sits for a portrait on a blade of grass at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis County on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. Billions of 13-year-old cicadas came from underground for their dormant period for mating. (Dominic Di Palermo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Bill Hillmann is a Pamplona bull runner, novelist, former Chicago Golden Glove boxer and currently works as a full-time english & communication professor of literature at East-West University. Hillman poses for a portrait at East-West University in Chicago’s Loop, on Friday, Oct. 17, 2025. (Dominic Di Palermo/Chicago Tribune)
