Images: More than two dozen towns are in the Week in Pictures
Cooling waters run through our Week in Pictures
Folo Watkins, of Urbana laughs as he talks with a vendor Sunday at the Swedish Day Midsummer Festival at Good Templar Park in Geneva. Watkins is a history re-enactor and was an Anglo-Scandinavian villager from 1016.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Model Lindsey Marks poses for artists as Poison Ivy from Batman during Fan Con at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library.
Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
Mike McKittrick, of Florida glances at one of the new sculptures in Naperville Saturday. Downtown Naperville hosted its second annual car show Saturday and revealed of 18 painted sculptures shaped like bucket chairs, some smooth like a baseball and others with ridges like a golf ball, throughout the downtown.
Paul Michna/pmichna@dailyherald.com
Baird and Warner Realtors march along with Uncle Sam in the Libertyville Days parade.
Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
Competitors start the 9th Lake in the Hills Triathlon with the half mile swim in Woods Creek Lake Sunday morning. A 15.5 mile bike ride and four mile run followed and finished at Ken Carpenter Park on Randall Rd.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Bob Welsh, of Barrington hangs out in the bed of his 1957 Studebaker during the third annual Wauconda Cruise Night Tuesday in Downtown Wauconda.
Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com
Dario Figliomeni, 5, of Arlington Heights gazes at Lego sculptures created by Jefferson Hoffman on Sunday at Brickworld Chicago's premier Lego display and exposition in Schaumburg.
Morgan Timms/mtims@dailyherald.com
Nurse Sara Marcy, of Advocate Condell Medical Center hoists the giant American flag high during Libertyville Days parade.
Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
Brian Reitz, of Naperville takes a picture of one of the Star Wars Lego displays alongside his five-year-old son, Chase Reitz, and wife Ellie Reitz, and their 22-month-old daughter Ava on Sunday at Brickworld Chicago's premier Lego exposition in Schaumburg. "He's thrilled," Brian said of his son.
Morgan Timms/mtimms@dailyherald.com
Ashton Gambrill, front, and Chris Lombardo, of Kenmode Tool and Engineering Inc. in Algonquin capsize slightly before returning to win their heat Saturday during the America's Cardboard Cup Regatta at Crystal Lake Main Beach in Crystal Lake.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Matthew Romanski, 4, of Elk Grove Village plays with his Dollar store squirt device, going after his sister Kaylee, 6, in the water at the fountains located at the Elk Grove Village on the first day of summer.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
Elgin's candlelight vigil for the Orlando shooting at the village hall.
Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com
Greg Wunderle, 33, of Arlington Heights jumps into refreshment on a hot first day of summer at Recreation Park in Arlington Heights.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
Alex Rottmann, 4, of Campton Hills, feeds a goat while Lilly Falco, 7, of St. Charles, collects more corn Saturday during Corron Farm Preservation Society's fourth annual Picnic on the Farm in Campton Hills.
Morgan Timms/mtims@dailyherald.com
Members of the Rosemont Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps. stand to attention before their performance Sunday at the unveiling of a statue of former Rosemont Mayor Donald E. Stephens in Rosemont.
Morgan Timms/mtims@dailyherald.com
Michele Cadwell, of Libertyville calls herself the Dancing Granny and dances along to the Libertyville Swing Band during Libertyville Days parade.
Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
Lennon Higgenson, 6, of Elmhurst jumps in a large jumper at Villa Park's Summerfest. Saturday wrapped up its two-day run as the "Community's largest block party."
Paul Michna/pmichna@dailyherald.com
Vincent Galassi, 5, of South Elgin holds up his crappie alongside Mike Lifka, of South Elgin during Saturday's Tuna Kahuna in South Elgin. Initially, Galassi was hesitant to hold his first catch of the day. "I don't want to! It's spiky!" Galassi said. But after some coaxing from Lifka, Galassi held the fish high and proud. The fish was 9.5 inches in length and 6.5 ounces in weight.
Morgan Timms/mtims@dailyherald.com
At his 50th birthday party, an unusual milestone for a donkey, Orlando tries on a hat with help from Kim Baldyga, right, and Jody Zyck, secretary and president of Field of Dreams equine rescue at Silver Spur Ranch in Maple Park.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Eleven-year-old Noah Kawaguchi, of Arlington Heights juggles some soccer balls for Brazilian Soccer superstar Ronaldinho Gaucho who was at the Judson College campus Friday for their annual summer soccer camp.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
A pit bull named Babii cools off in the pond at the Independence Grove Dog Exercise Area in Libertyville Wednesday.
Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com
Fiona Galvin, the mother of 17-year-old Kianna Galvin, says that since her daughter vanished she doesn't often go in her room.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
The sun sets behind the football field at Benedetti-Wehrli Stadium at North Central College in Naperville.
Bev Horne/bhorne@dailyherald.com
Paulette Stefanik, of St. Charles loosens the dirt around her tomato plants in the Primrose Farm community garden plots Monday afternoon in 90 degree temperatures. She said she's not good in the heat but "I'm a maniac when it comes to weeds!"
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Maintenance worker Mike Wicinski, of Round Lake sips from a water carrier in his truck at the end of his shift Monday adjacent the Lake Zurich Skatepark.
Morgan Timms/mtimms@dailyherald.com
Heather McCollim ties a tutu on daughter Ava as they prepare for her opportunity to compete for a world championship in soapbox derby racing. They were at the home of Stan Inglehart, Race Director of the Greater Chicago Soapbox Derby Association, to make adjustments to the car Thursday evening. The autistic eight-year-old will wear the tutu as she races for a World Rally Stock championship in Akron, Ohio in July.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Ben Michels, 8, of Lake Zurich, and balloon artist Dale Obrochta imitate elephants on Monday during Obrochta's improvisational balloon show at the Ela Area Public Library in Lake Zurich.
Morgan Timms/mtimms@dailyherald.com
Lola Andino, of Geneva shows her mom how she can use a Hula Hoop after the Vagabonds Runaway Circus performed on Third Street in Geneva during the opening day of the Swedish Days Festival.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Jermaine Flennoy, of Plainfield dances at Juneteenth in Bolingbrook Saturday. Juneteenth is largely a holiday celebrated by African Americans that celebrates the day that Union soldiers began enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865.
Paul Michna/pmichna@dailyherald.com
Terry and Kathy Weiland, of Woodstock check out the interior of a 1958 Bonneville during the third annual Wauconda Cruise Night Tuesday in Downtown Wauconda.
Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com
Nathan Rivas, 4, of Streamwood runs through the splash pad during the Streamwood Park district's summer kickoff at Sunny Hill Park Tuesday.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Customers and employees watch Wednesday during the grand opening of the new Wal-Mart in Carpentersville.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Little Miss Round Lake Area Brigid Finan, 8, of Round Lake Beach, pets a puppy that's available for adoption during the first day of BeachFest in Round Lake Beach Friday. Grayslake Central cheerleader Kenzie Greenfield was assisting at the Wagging Hearts booth at the fest.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
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