Hailey Giarraffa, 3, of Buffalo Grove, reaches for plastic eggs hidden under a bench at Nutphree's Bakery's first food free Easter egg hunt for children with food allergies at Trinity United Methodist Church on Saturday in Mount Prospect. Giarraffa is allergic to dairy, eggs, peanuts and other food items.
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Easter egg hunts kicked off this weekend across the suburbs. See images from egg hunts in Geneva, Batavia, Palatine, Vernon Hills, Mt. Prospect, and Wheaton.
Harper Kwan, 3, of Des Plaines, has her noise touched for by the Easter Bunny for good luck at Nutphree's Bakery's first food free Easter egg hunt for children with food allergies at Trinity United Methodist Church on Saturday in Mount Prospect.
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Ian Walker, 4, of Des Plaines uses he basket to block sunlight at Nutphree's Bakery's first food free Easter egg hunt for children with food allergies at Trinity United Methodist Church on Saturday in Mount Prospect.
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Hundreds of families attended the Great Egg Scramble at the Cosley Zoo in Wheaton. Above, nine year-olds hunt for eggs.
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Anneliese Cacovean, 2, of Wheaton visits with the Easter Bunny during the Great Egg Scramble at the Cosley Zoo in Wheaton.
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Nearly a hundred people use the strategy of just run and move fast to scoop up some of the Easter eggs at the Adult Flashlight Egg Scramble at Falcon Park Recreation Center on Friday.
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Matthew Sak, 9, of Hoffman Estates hunts for eggs during the Great Egg Scramble at the Cosley Zoo in Wheaton.
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Lorelei Wheeler, 2, of Vernon Hills picks up plastic eggs during the Vernon Hills Park district Hoppin Holiday Hunt and Magic show at the Sullivan Community Center in Vernon Hills Saturday.
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Children rush to pick up plastic eggs during the Vernon Hills Park district Hoppin Holiday Hunt and Magic show at the Sullivan Community Center in Vernon Hills Saturday.
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Carly Rasmussen, 13, center, reads gathered clues while teammate Madeleine Hermann, 12, holds a flashlight during the Egg-mazing Race at Wheeler Park in Geneva Friday night. (Both girls are from Geneva.) Their team searched all over Wheeler Park with flashlights looking for color-coded eggs which held a clue for the location of the next egg with a clue. When all were collected, teams won prizes.
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Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.comDressed in a chick costume, Emilie Serrano, 2, of Aurora collects eggs during Mooseheart's 5th annual Easter egg hunt in Batavia Saturday. This is her second time attending the egg hunt.
Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.comFamilies line up on sections divided by age on the Mooseheart football field before the start of the school's 5th annual Easter egg hunt in Batavia Saturday. 15,000 eggs were on the field for children in four age groups from age one up to eight.
Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.comMcKenna Blonn, 3, and her father, Tim, of Downers Grove check out the goodies she collected on the Mooseheart football field after Mooseheart's 5th annual Easter egg hunt in Batavia Saturday. This is the first time they have attended the event, which they didn't know it was going to be on the field. "It was more fun than I expected," said Tim.