Images: The Week In Pictures
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Tianna Brown, left and Angela Talley, right, hold the trophy for the Class 3A girls basketball state championship as they are recognized during a pep rally Friday at Montini Catholic High School in Lombard.
Bev Horne/bhorne@dailyherald.com
Vernon Hills Police officer Ward Feger reacts to having his head shaved by Martie Gross, with Natural Beauty Salon in Wisconsin, during the Vernon Hills St. Baldrick´s event, to raise money to fight childhood cancer, held at Westfield Hawthorn Mall in Vernon Hills on Saturday, March 10th.
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Vernon Hills Police officer Ward Feger reacts to having his head shaved by Martie Gross, with Natural Beauty Salon in Wisconsin, during the Vernon Hills St. Baldrick´s event, to raise money to fight childhood cancer, held at Westfield Hawthorn Mall in Vernon Hills on Saturday, March 10th.
George Leclaire/gleclaire@dailyherald.com
Lexi Ryan, a pug, from St. Charles is all decked out for the dog costume contest at the St. Patricks Day parade in St. Charles March 10, 2012.
BRIAN HILL/bhill@dailyherald.com
Six-year-old Alec Dangel, of Waukegan, rests with Sonny, a Russian tortoise, laying on his chest during Wildlife Discovery Centers 14th Annual Reptile Rampage Sunday at the City of Lake Forest Recreation Center. The education-only reptile show presented an opportunity for families to touch and learn about alligators, snakes, lizards, turtles and tortoises, and frogs.
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
Blackhawk Middle School student Ashely Garza, 13 collects flowers from Bensonville and Wood Dale moms who played a basketball to help raise money to help defray her medical costs related to cancer, treatment, at Deer Grove Leisure Center in Bensonville.
Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com
Zdenka and Nathan Mammana-Lupo of Lake Zurich, enjoy some lunch outside at Paulus Park in Lake Zurich.
Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
Kim McMahon of Naperville takes advantage of record-breaking temperatures along the Naperville Riverwalk, as she enjoys a relaxing lunch with her children Keira, 2, and Colin, 4, right.
Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com
After a run in Independence Grove Forest Preserve, Libertyville resident Manny Piller took in some sun while reading and enjoying Wednesday springlike weather.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
Gabriel Montoya maintains the North Shore Gas Living Wall inside the Grand Woodland Hall at the Greenbelt Cultural Center in North Chicago Tuesday afternoon. The wall of plants filters pollutants and serves as a vertical wetland, also reducing energy costs.
Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
The Wheaton Police investigate collision between an SUV and a Union Pacific freight train at Hill Ave and the railroad crossing just east of the College Ave station. According to witnesse, s the vehicle was heading south over the railroad tracks at Hill Ave and while traveling at a high rate of speed, went around the down gates.
Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com
Nanny Amy Olson helps young Dylan Dean up the path to preschool at Paulus Park in Lake Zurich. People were out in force at the park Tuesday, enjoying the warm weather.
Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
5-year-old William Wallace of Libertyville plays some football with his grandfather at Riverside Park in Libertyville as Temperatures soared into the high 70s Wednesday.
Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com
Fremont third grade student Kyle Appelhans gets a close look at a large soap bubble hes blowing during District 79s STEAM Teams program at the Mundelein school Thursday. The after school program explores the connections between science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) with around 90 third through fifth grade students attending.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
GOP Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich shakes hands with students onstage after speaking at Barrington High School Thursday.
JOE LEWNARD/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
A 3-month-old has a grip on the little finger of volunteer Trudy Lewis in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital.
Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
Student council members and fourth graders Carolina Valdes, 8, left, and Natalie Loyola, 10, are all smiles as they lead and escort Callista Gingrich through the hallways of Sunny Hill Elementary School in Carpentersville on Thursday, March 15. Mrs. Gingrich visited with two fifth grade classes then read her book about an elephant named Ellis in Sweet Land of Liberty to first graders in the library.
Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com
Sixth grader Lea Boucek, left, plays the roll of Ramses II as fifth and sixth graders at Prairie Crossing Charter School took part in an Egyptian Wax Museum Thursday in Grayslake. Each student dressed up in costume with a plaster mask that represents a n Egyptian God, Goddess, King or Queen.
Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com
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