Dominic Di Palermo, a senior from outside of Chicago has had a chance to take a semester off to return to Illinois and intern for the Chicago Tribune. This past year he has had the pleasure of covering the Kentucky Derby, Chicago Bears, documenting Jane Goodall a few weeks before her death. Chicago became the center of attention as the federal government began detaining undocumented immigrants and the citizens of the city began pushing back. Here are a few of his pictures from the past year.




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