Images: The Week in Pictures
Four-year-old Cael Cramond gets boxes ready for packing during Tuesday's Gift of Giving food box packing event at the Lindenhurst Early Childhood Center. Students and teachers filled 400 boxes to be donated to local food pantries and charities.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
Marketing manager Kit Leider grabs a poinsettia at Leider Greenhouses in Buffalo Grove on Monday. The green company grows 300,000 poinsettias for the holiday season.
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
Almost looking like it's playing hide and seek, this elephant was simply stored backstage at the Marquee Youth Stage in St. Charles a few months ago. The large prop was created by volunteers for a previous Lion King tribute production called "King of the Pride". I recently revisited the theater group and he had been moved out of hiding and was smack in the middle of all the activity backstage amongst the kids. This photo was originally published in the Perspective column in the print edition of the Daily Herald.
Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com
John Skipworth and Alice Barmann wait as they have their winning Bingo card validated by Robert Garvey during Bingo at The Schuamburg Barn in Schaumburg.
Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
Children At Play (CAP) students finish up with their gift collection for the village of Arlington Heights Adopt-A-Family program. Katie Klein, 10, middle, reads one of the cards that was written for the family. Also pictured is Alli Paulsen, 9, Nicole Klem, 9, Jordan Leyva, 8, and Giavanna Medura, 10.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
Teacher Romero Bravo sits his class down for story time at the deLacey Family Education Center in Carpentersville Friday. Elgin Area School District U-46 and Hampshire based Community Unit School District 300 are recipients of federal Preschool Development Grant funding of roughly $2 million and $890,000, respectively. The program is designed to increase access to education for 4-year-old children from families earning about $47,700 annually for a family of four. The monies will be invested in early childhood education programs.
Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
Sydney Gajewski, 19, of South Elgin, hugs Santa (Greg Stout of Elgin) after telling him her wish list during his visit to South Elgin High School Wednesday. Her wish was "good health and peace for all."
Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com
5-year-old Xavion Crawford, of Waukegan, gets some gifts from Lake County Sheriff Chief Jennifer Witherspoon, as churches, elected officials, police chiefs and citizens teamed up to provide gifts and food to families of inmates in the Lake County jail and the underprivileged of the area. The "Christmas Parade" took place from Mary's Mission in Waukegan to the Lake County jail's work release building where items were handed out.
Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
The Grinch, played by Addison Fugelseth, howls as people from Whoville sing Christmas songs during the presentation of "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" and "Charlie Brown's Christmas" Wednesday at Gavin Central School in Ingleside. The plays were performed for the public Wednesday night.
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
Brayden Hansen, 4, of Algonquin, enjoys the view of the annual Kishwaukee Valley & Eakin Creek Model Railroad Club holiday display from high atop a children's viewing stand set up in Prairie Lodge Social Lounge at Del Webb in Huntley.
Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com
Taylor Isaac, 6, of Glenview, plays a video game on a cell phone while his mom, Brandy, left, waits to file for her caucus for District 34, and Brian Burke, right, of Schaumburg, waits to file in District 211 during the first day of filing for Cook County school board elections Monday at Ditka's at Arlington Racecourse in Arlington Heights. The elections will be held in April 2015.
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
Deer forage through the snow for food in Deer Grove East forest preserve in Palatine after a late November snowfall. I used my 80-200 zoom lens and hid behind my open car door as I observed the deer picking through the blanket of snow. This photo was originally published in the Perspective column in the print edition of the Daily Herald.
Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
Mary Insprucker, of Palatine, watches the Magical Animated Holiday Light show with her grandchildren, Hadley Welss, 2, of Schaumburg, and her brother Gideon, 3, outside the Hampton Inn at Randhurst in Mount Prospect Tuesday.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Jordan Cote, 4, of Geneva, puts the finishing touches of paint on a wooden snowflake ornament during the Santa's Little Helpers class for 2-6 year olds at the Geneva Park District Thursday. Students also made decorated foam frames and rubber stamped and stickered up paper for wrapping gifts.
Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com
While photographing the Glenbard East vs. West Aurora boys basketball I noticed the shimmering colors and shadows made by brightly lighted sign of the scorers table. These lighted table sometimes are not a photographers friend, but in this case I was able to use its light to make this image. This photo was originally published in the Perspective column in the print edition of the Daily Herald.
Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com
Palatine High School senior cross country runner Kara Burton smiles as she and her teammates are recognized for finishing second in state this year, at a gathering at the French Farmer's Market following the HIP Athletic Association morning run Saturday morning.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Carla Perry, of Napervile, and Jeremiah Perry, 2, of Naperville, enjoy a moment at the Wheaton Christian Center Christmas party Saturday. Not everyone can be home for the holidays, as the classic song suggests, but JUST of DuPage, is attempting to help fill that void for some area children. The nonprofit organization that provides clergy service and life-skills training programs to DuPage County jail inmates, has partnered with several other organizations to host a holiday party Saturday afternoon for more than 730 children of inmates and their guardians.
Paul Michna/pmichna@dailyherald.com
Austin Dohm, of local Elgin band, Ness, performs with bandmates at Side Street Studio Arts' second annual "Jingle Bell Jam!" in Elgin Saturday. All four members are from Elgin.
Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com
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