Five Weeks & Counting

Ashvin Lad, 42, of Lakeview, lifts a plastic laundry basket full of Wrigley field sod into his car Sept. 8, 2016. Lad, a small business owner, made a pit stop to pick up the grass on his way to work. (Alyssa Pointer/ Chicago Tribune)

Kyra Smith, mother of the three girls that died in the Southeast Side fire, places roses atop of her daughters’ graves during the burial at Mount Hope Cemetery on Sept. 10, 2016, in the Marionette Park neighborhood. The sisters, Shaniyah Staples, 7, Madison Watson, 4, and Melanie Watson, 3 months, died in a fire on the city’s Southeast Side that authorities believe was arson. (Alyssa Pointer/ Chicago Tribune)

People walk down 26th Street before the start of the 26th Street Mexican Independence Day Parade on Sept. 11, 2016, in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood. (Alyssa Pointer/ Chicago Tribune)

Oscar Long practices with a basketball before the start of the fifth annual Peace Basketball Tournament in the St. Sabina Church gym on Sept. 17, 2016, in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood.  (Alyssa Pointer/ Chicago Tribune)

A crowd disperses throughout the Heavenly Angels funeral home parking lot following the emotional outburst of a man attending the funeral for Nahmar “Nemo” Holmes on Sept. 18, 2016, in the East Beverly neighborhood. Family and friends told the young man to release his emotions before he left the service in order to keep the negative energy away from his children, who were at home. After much convincing, the man released his anger and was comforted on the ground as he cried. Nahmar Holmes, 23, was shot to death outside his home in the Brainerd neighborhood Sept. 10

A herd of adolescent ostrich walk around in their pen at J & D ostrich farm, Thursday, September 22, 2016, in Sumner, Illinois. Dawn Steber and her husband, Jeff Steber, have over 100 ostrich on their property. (Alyssa Pointer/ Chicago Tribune)

Nichelle Moss, 25, sweeps in between a row of bleachers in a classroom at Leo Catholic High School, Saturday, September 24, 2016, in the Englewood neighborhood. Moss has a brother that graduated from the school in 2012 and decided to volunteer her time because she loves the new principal. Friends, school alumni, local organizations and volunteers from the community came together Saturday, September 24, 2016, to help clean Leo Catholic School. People swept classroom floors, washed graduated cylinders, scrubbed down lockers and shined stained glass windows within the school. Leo Catholic High School is an all boys high school with a one hundred percent graduation rate. (Alyssa Pointer/ Chicago Tribune)

Tenesha Barner watches in the distance as brothers Deamonte Welch, front middle, Darreon Harris, left, and Darren Anderson, back right, walk Roo and Belle down the sidewalk in the Parkway Gardens apartment complex, Saturday, September 24, 2016, in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood. This was the first time the boys had been given the task of walking the dogs. Barner, a family friend and owner of the dogs, gave the brothers instructions as they navigated throughout the complex.  (Alyssa Pointer/ Chicago Tribune)

Tomas Carrilo, middle, winces as he watches handmade rockets launch during the second annual adventure day, hosted by the Boy Scouts of America’s Pathway to Adventure Council at Centennial Park, Saturday, October 1, 2016, in the Oak Lawn neighborhood. (Alyssa Pointer/Chicago Tribune)

Tommy Wong, 50, smokes a cigarette during a game of Chinese Chess at Sun-Yet-Sen Park, Monday, September 19, 2016, in the Chinatown neighborhood. Wong said he visits the park everyday in order to play with the retired men. Wong ended up losing the game.(Alyssa Pointer/ Chicago Tribune)

Secret Service personnel lookout on the rooftop of McCormick Place convention center as Marine One lands in the Soldier Field Stadium parking lot, Friday, October 7, 2016, in Chicago. President Barack Obama visited Chicago Friday to attend a fundraiser luncheon for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. (Alyssa Pointer/Chicago Tribune)

A special operations U.S. Marine walks past a Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey, part of the Marine One squadron, as it lands in the Soldier Field Stadium parking lot, Friday, October 7, 2016, in Chicago. President Barack Obama visited Chicago Friday to attend a fundraiser luncheon for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. (Alyssa Pointer/Chicago Tribune)

President Barack Obama visits 69 West Washington Street to cast his vote for the upcoming presidential election, Friday, October 7, 2016, in Chicago. President Barack Obama visited Chicago Friday to attend a fundraiser luncheon for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. (Alyssa Pointer/Chicago Tribune)

Building dwellers peer out their windows in order to get a glimpse of President Barack Obama after he voted for the upcoming presidential election, Friday, October 7, 2016, in Chicago. (Alyssa Pointer/ Chicago Tribune)

President Barack Obama speaks during a fundraiser for Democratic U.S. senate candidate, Tammy Duckworth, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016, at the Stony Island Arts Bank in the Grand Crossing neighborhood. (Alyssa Pointer/Chicago Tribune)

A woman smiles toward President Barack Obama as he speaks during a fundraiser for U.S. senate candidate Tammy Duckworth, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016, at the Stony Island Arts Bank in the Grand Crossing neighborhood. (Alyssa Pointer/Chicago Tribune)