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Images: The Week in Pictures

  Over 1,600 runners started the Rotary 5K Santa run on Saturday by running the first block at Campbell Street and Vail Avenue in Arlington Heights. George LeClaire/gleclaire@dailyherald.com
  Irene Tripkos, left, Infant Toddler Specialist of District 62 Early Learning program, gets ready to start the class at the DesPlaines Public Library as Melissa Westphal and her 1 year old daughter Madeline, right, play with 1 year old Kensie Jewitt as her mother, Patty, looks on. Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
  A pair of birds float over the Fox River just South of Boy Scout Island. I was able to get this picture as I leaned out of the window of the Despicable Me 2 blimp as it headed over St. Charles earlier this summer.This picture was published in the weekly Perspective column in the print edition. Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
  This time of year it is very common to see large flocks of birds flying together. I saw this group on Warrenville Road in Naperville recently. I don’t know what type of bird it is, but they could be seen resting as a group in the trees, then flying up together at once and going over to another group of trees. I find it interesting to see them fill the sky and swoop in unison to their next destination. This picture was published in the weekly Perspective column in the print edition. Bev Horne/bhorne@dailyherald.com
  While waiting for a train to pull into the Bartlett Metra station to illustrate a story on local Santa John Sullivan’s comprehensive website listing of all area Polar Express train appearances, I could’t help but noticing this odd juxtapositioning of characters begging for a hip shot. This picture was published in the weekly Perspective column in the print edition. Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
  Mary Gartner, of Darian, takes photos of more than 3,000 poinsettias in the greenhouse at Cantigny Park during their annual open house to show off several varieties of poinsettia plants grown onsite. Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com
  Khalen Young, 14, of Hoffman Estates, holds the Hoffman Estates Junior Midget team trophy while seated with Clevontae Jackson, left, and JJ Daniels, as the team waits to find out who they will be playing in the Pop Warner finals in Florida. JOE LEWNARD/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
  Amy Schram, of Elgin, helps her daughter Molly, 2 & 1/2, color an ornament during story time at the Barnes & Noble in the Spring Hill Mall in West Dundee Tuesday. Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
  Joanne Sale rescues a cat named Charlie from a fire in her sister’s house on Ohio Street near Lisle Tuesday evening. Bev Horne/bhorne@dailyherald.com
  Seventh graders Stephanie Rivas, right, Julia Sulicka and Anna Lee, pick out pajamas as students from Carl Sandbug Middle School select toys and clothing from Target in Mundelein on Tuesday a needy Mundelein family. The Community Service Club raised $333 to help the family for the holidays. Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
  Carl Sandbug Middle School seventh graders Shannon Lampi, right, and Jocelyn Gill, look for a coat at Target in Mundelein on Tuesday to help a needy Mundelein family. Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
  Carter Magnussan, 3, with a little help from his teacher Chris Gillis, gives Shirley Bouchez from Sunrise Senior Center, a high-five during their visit to Arbor View Elementary in Glen Ellyn on Wednesday. Bev Horne/bhorne@dailyherald.com
  Geneva electric department lineman Keith Benson hangs ornaments made by local children on the city’s Christmas tree in front of the old court house building on Third Street on Thursday. The tree was decorated in prep for the annual Christmas Walk and House Tour festivities this weekend. Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com
  Rolling Meadows Holiday Tree Lighting ceremony welcomed Santa with his pal Jackson Maloney, 3, of Rolling Meadows who was first to greet him with his wish list. Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
  Former principal of Twin Groves Middle School, Heather Friziellie, receives a hug from sixth-grader Kira Sullivan after a program at the school celebrating the school winning a Blue Ribbon School award from the U.S. Dept. of Education on Thursday in Buffalo Grove. George LeClaire/gleclaire@dailyherald.com
  Getting reacquainted are Lyle Hancock, of Wheeling, and Joe Triolo, of Waukegan. Both are Pearl Harbor survivors, along with Ed Block, of LaGrange, that were in attendance at Friday’s ceremony honoring the 72nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor at the Oakton Place in Des Plaines. Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
  Items that have been collected for disaster relief for the Washington tornado victims sit at the bottom of a 20-foot Christmas tree Friday at Shodeen headquarters in Geneva. They will be delivered to the Washington area this coming Wednesday. Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
  Austin McPherson, 1, of Bartlett, clings to his dad Phil’s leg as he shys away from Santa as his mom looks on at the tree lighting ceremony in Bartlett on Friday. Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
  4-year-old Kenny Murphy, of Lake Zurich, sits on top of the shoulders of his dad John, while waiting to see Santa at Wauconda’s Holiday Walk on Main Street Saturday. Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
  Five-year-old Heather Miller, of Batavia, helps juggle scarves during the Breakfast with Santa program at the Eastside Community Center Saturday in Batavia. Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
  Mike Fox, district chief with the North Maine Fire Protection District, gives a high-five to Neko Rias, 4, of Chicago, being carried by Jim Utinans, engineer with Des Plaines Fire Department, through a Gauntlet of Honor made up of police officers and fire department personal into Santa’s Winter Wonderland at the Donald E. Stephens Rosemont Convention and Banquet Center on Saturday in Rosemont. George LeClaire/gleclaire@dailyherald.com
  Brownies Isabella Lucarelli, left, and Anna McCarthy, both 8, sing “Jingle Bells” during the Lincolnshire Holiday Tree Lighting on Sunday in the Village Green shopping center. The Lincolnshire Community Association’s holiday event featured the arrival of Santa, musical performances, free food and drink culminating in the tree lighting. Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
  Jessica Post, 5, of Norridge, colors a Christmas tree as she waits for the arrival of Santa Claus during Santa’s Flight to Schaumburg Sunday at the Schaumburg Regional Airport. The holiday event was sponsored by the Schaumburg Park District and the Northwest Flyers. The air was filled with excitement as 300 visitors waited for the arrival of Santa Claus by helicopter. Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
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