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This Week In Photos: K-Pop Takeover Of Lollapalooza, Remembering Serabi Medina And More

PHOTOS: Take a peek at life in the city through the eyes and lenses of the Block Club Chicago staff.

Colin Boyle and Block Club Chicago Staff

9:17 AM CDT on Aug 11, 2023

Family, friends, teachers and classmates came together for a candlelight vigil for Serabi Medina, 9 at Reinberg Elementary in Portage Park on Aug. 10, 2023. Medina was fatally shot by a neighbor days before.

CHICAGO — Another busy week in Chicago included a crowded and sometimes soggy Lollapalooza. Block Club was there — and all over Chicago.

See what Block Club reporters captured while covering the neighborhoods.

Serabi Medina’s father got her face tattooed on his shoulder, as seen at the candlelight vigil for Medina at Reinberg Elementary in Portage Park on Aug. 10, 2023. Medina was fatally shot by a neighbor days before.

Serabi Medina, 9, was fatally shot Aug. 5, 2023 outside her Portage Park home. A memorial is seen Aug. 7 where she was killed by a neighbor, police said.

Read more: 9-Year-Old Serabi Medina’s Family, Teachers, Neighbors Mourn The Loss Of A Young, ‘Amazing Soul’

Read more: Man Followed 9-Year-Old Girl On Her Scooter And Killed Her In Front Of Her Dad, Prosecutors Say

K-pop boy band sensation Tomorrow x Together closes out the night on the Bud Light stage during the third day of Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Aug. 5, 2023.

Tomorrow X Together fans wait in line to get into Lollapalooza on Aug. 5, 2023.

Festival crew hold their arms up in “X” shapes to indicate the need of medical attention near the T-Mobile stage before Fred Again.. performs during the second day of Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Aug. 4, 2023.

Read more: Tomorrow X Together’s Lollapalooza Set Shows Power Of K-Pop In Chicago

A fire engulfed a house in the 1700 block of North Monticello Avenue in Humboldt Park Aug. 8, 2023.

Relatives of a Humboldt Park family watch as firefighters battle a blaze at the family’s home on Aug. 8, 2023.

Read more: Humboldt Park Family Displaced, 2 Firefighters Hurt After Blaze Near 606’s Bloomingdale Trail

Englewood native Dion Dawson set up a Dream Vault, where people can pick up fresh produce for free inside the newly opened Save a Lot, 832 W. 63rd St., in Englewood, as seen on Aug. 8, 2203.

Read more: Free Food From A Grocery Store? Englewood Nonprofit Launches Innovative Lockers To Serve Neighbors

Luke Carroll, who owns Green Inc. in old town with his mother, Inara Carroll.

Read more: Green Inc. Flower Shop Celebrates 50 Years In Old Town

Owner Andres Reyes poses with a chivo birria taco at Birrieria Ocotlan on 106th Street in Chicago’s East Side on Aug. 3, 2023, as the restaurant nears its 50th anniversary.

A chivo birria taco sits alongside bowls of consumé and limes at Birrieria Ocotlan on 106th Street in Chicago’s East Side on Aug. 3, 2023, as the restaurant nears its 50th anniversary.

Read more: Birrieria Ocotlan Celebrates 50 Years Of Serving Birria On The South Side

Carlota Quebedo, an asylum seeker, visits Sauganash neighbor Frank Schmeda’s table of free clothes, snacks and water for asylum seekers visiting the nearby Illinois Department of Human Services office, as seen on Aug. 10, 2023.

Read more: Northwest Side Man Gives Away Free Clothes To Migrants

A woman speaking to Robert Walker during a community meeting on Friday with former Ald. Wallace Davis Jr. (27th) and current Ald. Walter Burnett attending.

Read more: Black-Owned West Side Weed Dispensary Won’t Get Alderman’s Support

Il Vicinato owner Leo Rios (center right), his wife Viktoryia Nvik (right) and longtime employees Adrian Gonzalez (left) and Benjamin Padilla (center left) in front of the renovated bar.

Read more: Pilsen’s Il Vicinato Ristorante Reopens After Renovations

Outside of Schneider Deli, which is housed inside the iconic Ohio House Motel, 600 N. LaSalle Dr.

Read more: Schneider Deli Opens In Iconic Ohio Street Motel

Supporters of landmarking the shuttered St. Adalbert’s church during a special meeting of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks Aug. 7, 2023.

Read more: Pilsen’s St. Adalbert Church Gets Key First Approval To Become Chicago Landmark

Daisy Zaragoza, 42, taught her family the to Arab yarn knotting technique known as macramé.

The Torres family working on jewelry outside together in the backyard.

Read more: Brighton Park Family Opens Handmade Jewelry Store — In Their South Side Home

Mary Ziamparas and her son Tasso Ziamparas outside George’s Hot Dogs, which has been in their family since 1948

Read more: George’s Hot Dogs Celebrates 75 Years Of Street Food Classics In Bucktown

Jennifer Billock tells people’s fortunes and future by reading blocks of cheese, as seen in Edgewater on July 28, 2023.

Read more: Reading Between The Rinds: Local Woman Can Read Your Fortune Using Cheese

Senn High School Principal Holly Dacres and Athletic Director Steven Brewer pump iron in the school’s new weight room.

Read more: Senn High School Unveils $100,000 Weight Room Thanks To Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation

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