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Images: Back to School Tuesday in the Suburbs

  Students file into Schaumburg High School for their first day. Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
  Friends come together for a back-to-school moment at Schaumburg High School. Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
  Checking to see if they have any classes together are junior class members Samantha LaBee ,16, and Logan Walther ,16. Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
  It is hard enough on the first day of school just dealing with your fellow classmates and locker woes, but add a bum leg you just had surgery on due to a soccer injury? Junior Jenna Eaker at Schaumburg High School said “It’s not too bad.” Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
  Hundreds of students file off the buses at Schaumburg High School. Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
  Assistant Principal Shayne Bullen at Schaumburg High School greets freshman Arman Willabay. Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
  Students return at Schaumburg High for the first day of classes. Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
  Chris Deignan tells students their seating assignments for his sophomore english class at Barrington High School. Bill Zars/bzars@dailyherald.com
  Riley Raynor, a second grader at Hough Street School, tries out the new playground equipment before class. Bill Zars/bzars@dailyherald.com
  Students line up for the first day of school at Hough Street School in Barrington. Bill Zars/bzars@dailyherald.com
  Students pass in the hallway after their first class at Barrington High School. Bill Zars/bzars@dailyherald.com
  Students take a spin the new playground equipment before class on the first day of school at Hough Street School in Barrington. Bill Zars/bzars@dailyherald.com
  Melika Sobi, 9, and her mother Marya Sobi make their way to Whittier Elementary School in Wheaton, for the first day of classes. Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com
  First graders line up at Hoover Wood Elementary School in Batavia. John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
  First graders line up and hold backpacks over their heads as it begins to rain at Hoover Wood Elementary School in Batavia. John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
  Second grade teacher Michelle Tarkowski reads a book to her students during the first day of classes at W.C. Petty Elementary School in Antioch. Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
  Third graders Alex Tius, left, and Michael Plonski perform a word search of their classmates in Deedee Harger’s class at W.C. Petty Elementary School in Antioch. Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
  Second grader Lizbeth Mata receives a backpack from Jason Lukas of United Stationers Charitable Foundation Tuesday at Diamond Lake Elementary School in Mundelein. The foundation handed out 70 free backpacks to second-grade students and each contained school supplies for the start of classes. Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
  Ana Bonilla, 4, left, watches her sister, Rosa, 7, unpack her new backpack provided by United Stationers Charitable Foundation at Diamond Lake School in Mundelein. Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com