Forty retailers along Oak Street, Rush Street, Delaware Place and Michigan Avenue lent their storefronts and windows on Sunday, June 1, 2025, to PAWS Chicago for their annual Angels With Tails event. Inside and outside, people perusing the luxury shopping streets could find everything from playful kittens to former greyhound racing dogs. “The idea is to bring homeless pets into the community, into areas where people are just walking around, where they’ll encounter them and hopefully fall in love and adopt. It’s a way to bring the mission front and center,” said Susanna Wickham, CEO of PAWS Chicago.
People stop to see kittens inside the Oak Street boutique Vince on June 1, 2025, during the 28th annual Angels with Tails adoption event by PAWS Chicago in the Gold Coast neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)A kitten named Hobbes waits to be adopted along with others in the Oak Street boutique Vince on June 1, 2025, during the 28th annual Angels with Tails event by PAWS Chicago. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
Lucia Rangel-Abeyta, 3, and Linn Zhao stop to pet a 2-month-old puppy named Alexa along Oak Street on June 1, 2025, during the 28th annual Angels With Tails adoption event by PAWS Chicago in the Gold Coast neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)People stop to greet a puppy named Butter who was pending adoption June 1, 2025, during the 28th annual Angels With Tails event by PAWS Chicago. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)Jackson Genovese and Kristen Leetzow take their new three-month-old puppy Chanel home June 1, 2025, during the 28th annual Angels with Tails adoption event by PAWS Chicago in the Gold Coast neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
Kittens wait to be adopted in the Oak Street boutique Vince on June 1, 2025, during the 28th annual Angels With Tails event by PAWS Chicago in the Gold Coast neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)People play with kittens in the Marc Jacobs store on June 1, 2025, during the 28th annual Angels With Tails adoption event by PAWS Chicago in the Gold Coast neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)People stop to greet a puppy named Butter who was pending adoption June 1, 2025, during the 28th annual Angels With Tails event by PAWS Chicago in the Gold Coast neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
A kitten named Aslan chases her own tail inside the Marc Jacobs store along Oak Street on June 1, 2025, during the 28th annual Angels With Tails adoption event by PAWS Chicago in the Gold Coast neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)Kittens wait to be adopted in the Oak Street boutique Vince on June 1, 2025, during the 28th annual Angels With Tails event by PAWS Chicago in the Gold Coast neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)People stop to greet a puppy named Alessia who was pending adoption June 1, 2025, during the 28th annual Angels with Tails event by PAWS Chicago in the Gold Coast neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
Artist Erika Vazzana paints pet portraits on handbags inside the Marc Jacobs store on June 1, 2025, during the 28th annual Angels With Tails adoption event by PAWS Chicago in the Gold Coast neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)A kitten named Aslan sits inside a Marc Jacobs store along Oak Street on June 1, 2025, during the 28th annual Angels With Tails adoption event by PAWS Chicago in the Gold Coast neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
