Don't turn your back while The Week in Pictures photo gallery is delivered for March 12-18, 2022.
Posted3/22/2022 7:00 PM
Nurses asked for safer working conditions and the high school spring sports season started while the weather took a turn for the better in The Week in Pictures photo gallery for March 12-18, 2022.

Paul Pater, right, a nurse from Evergreen Park who works at the University of Chicago Hospital emergency department, delivers boxes of signatures to the front door of the Joint Commission building in Oak Brook Terrace. "We are demanding the Joint Commission mandate safe staffing ratios be part of their accreditation process," he explained.
Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer

Jeanette Alvarez, a nurse at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago bangs her hand on the front door window of the Joint Commission building in Oak Brook Terrace demanding a response from them as nurses rally to get safe staffing rations in the hospitals where they work.
Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer








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