The best staff photos from last week
Daily Herald staff photographers documented everything happening around you last week.
Gianna Wick, 12, of Carl Sandburg Middle School in Mundelein, wipes the windows of resident Agnes Radakovitz, as Kelsy Cain, social worker at Carl Sandburg, holds the ladder during the A-May-Zing Mundelein's Annual Day of Caring on Saturday.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
Reenactor Bill Teshner, of Geneva, portrays General William T. Sherman, commander of the military division of the Mississippi, during Civil War Days at Naper Settlement in Naperville.
Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com
The build-up of excitement to a Chicago Blackhawks game at the United Center is a technological circus of color and movement and sound on game night. The show begins, as the crowd finds their seats, with fast-paced action on the giant video board above center ice. The music grows to a thunder and the arena lights dim and spotlights and lazer lights streak around like bees, and huge images are projected onto the ice surface as the players come out of the lockerroom. The crowd is energized into a frenzy as the national anthem starts. But for brief moments, there is darkness on the crowd. I caught this fan's glowing cellphone-lit smile out of the corner of my eye before a recent playoff game during one of those moments. To see more of what catches my eye, follow my social media accounts at Instagram.com/JohnStarksPhoto, Facebook.com/JohnStarksPhoto, and Twitter.com @DHJohnStarks. This photo was published in the Perspective column in the print edtion of the Daily Herald.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Groot garbage worker Dan Miedema picks up garbage on South Dunton Ave. in Arlington Heights.The two-a-week pickups may be discontinued later in the year.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
Pat Gavros, left, is driving around the country on a 21-day, 19 states, and 5000-mile journey to honor vets and emergency responders. Above, she stops to present a plaque to Hanover Park Police Department Chief David Webb.
Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com
Matt Head, from Jay's Plumbing in Downers Grove, performs the required lawn sprinkler system check at a home in the Tallgrass subdivision in Naperville. Tallgrass home owner Dawn Summers coordinated the mass testing for her neighborhood in order to get a volume discount for her and her neighbors.
Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com
From left, Hana B. Moran, Eva Clarke and Dr. Mark Olsky, three babies born in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in World War II, and rescued by an American Army division that include Sgt. Albert Kosiek, place three stones on Kosiek's grave, a Jewish tradition of respect, at St. Joseph Cemetery in River Grove.
Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
Suzanne Carroll-Epstein and her daughter Ariella Epstein, 20, right, take part in the 12th annual Candlelight Vigil for those affected by eating disorders at Linden Oaks Behavioral Health Center on Monday in Naperville. Ariella has been recovered for over a year.
Bev Horne/bhorne@dailyherald.com
Alyssa Graffia, 4th grade, left, holds the leash of 5-year-old Bernese Mountain dog, Ellie Rose, as Yadira Gomez, right, 3rd grade, gives her a hug. Renee Cole of Naperville brought her therapy dog to visit Peterson Elementary in Naperviile.
Bev Horne/bhorne@dailyherald.com
Kairi Fuqua plays the Scarecrow during the performance of "The Wizard of Oz" at Gavin Central School in Ingleside on Tuesday. First and second grade students were in costume as witches, flying monkeys and Munchkins as they performed for the rest of the school.
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
St. Peter's Lutheran School Principal Roger Kirsch is retiring after 42 years of service to the school, and the kids all signed a picture that has them spelling out a big thank you to their principal. Standing in the hallways he fist bumbs the kids as they file out for lunch. He prides himself in knowing all of their names.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
Jeremiah Raggs, of Glendale Heights, places ten of the 6845 flags displayed in honor of recent fallen veterans, at the corner of Bloomingdale Road and Fullerton Avenue in Glendale Height's Veterans Memorial Park.
Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com
Austin Love, 16, who has autism, packs up a mug with the Have a Happy slogan. He and his mother have started the "Have A Happy" product line, selling mugs, water bottles, t-shirts and other items.
Bev Horne/bhorne@dailyherald.com
Seventh-graders Veronica Pomogaeva, left, and Hannah Perlow, play Civil War era music while kids pass in the hallways as Hawthorn Middle School North held their 6th annual Civil War Day Thursday in Vernon Hills.
Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com
Mia Rodriguez, 8, of Des Plaines, right, rides alongside Jazlynn Zepeda, 9, also of Des Plaines on opening night of the Jaycees Carnival in Mount Prospect Thursday.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Dan and Midge Anderson of Glen Ellyn search a map for the locations of Civil War veterans as members of the Glen Ellyn Historical Society place flags their gavel in Glen Ellyn' sForest Hill Cemetery.
Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com
Freshman Serena Schnekenburger, left, makes junior Jenny Zieger laugh as she shakes a coin belt in front of the Morocco booth during the "Display of Cultures" at Wheeling High School Friday. Sieger is wearing traditional German dress.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Boomers fan Jim Hickey, of Naperville, got into the spirit at the Schaumburg Boomers opening day game against the Lake Erie Crushers on Friday.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
Vice Admiral Robin Braun, Commander of Navy Reserve Force, right, gets a gift from Robert Moga, a Korean War Navy vet, at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville on Friday.
Bev Horne/bhorne@dailyherald.com
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