Images: Relax with The Week in Pictures
Magnus Bittenbinder, 3, of Elmhurst and his dad, Jason, assemble a dinosaur model together during dino activity day at the Lizzardo Museum of Lapidary Art in Elmhurst.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Mundelein boys basketball manager Carson Beck, left, receives a letterman's jacket from Athletic Director Troy Parola before Tuesday night's game against Warren. The jacket came for the mother of Brian Ferguson who was a class of 1986 graduate from Mundelein High School. She wanted some deserving to have the jacket after her son had passed away.
Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com
Rajinder Singh Mago, from the Sikh Religious Society in Palatine, gives the opening prayer during 13th annual World Peace Day Interfaith Prayer Service in Naperville at North Central College's Wentz Concert Hall.
Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com
Jennah Martinez, 8, and Jordon Llanito, 9, Brownies of Troop 50970 in Hanover Park sort bottle caps as part of the Girl Scouts annual cookie sale kickoff at the Allstate Arena on Saturday. Jennah described it as "fun and awesome". Both girls are aiming to sell 200 boxes of cookies but so far have only sold twenty.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
Paul Pieper strips a table as the shuttered Blackthorn Grille in Lake Villa is being made into a Timothy O'Toole's restaurant.
Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com
"Yellow ice" on the Elk Grove home of Dawn Scarpulla after it landed there Monday morning. The FAA in Des Plaines insist that if it were from a plane it would be "blue Ice."
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
Libby and Jon Toskston, of Glen Ellyn take their one-year-old daughter Nora out for a spin on Lake Ellyn on Monday. "We are enjoying the winter, before the ice melts later this week", said Libby.
Bev Horne/bhorne@dailyherald.com
The sun sits low in the sky on a subzero New Years morning as a newly dug hole awaits participants of the 19th annual Polar Bear Plunge at Waukegan Municipal Beach.
Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com
All-Canada Show Spokesman Jim Crowley shows 13-year-old Ryan Busscher, of Deerfield one of his newly designed fishing rods Friday during the All-Canada Show at Pheasant Run in St. Charles.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Secretary of Energy Rick Perry speaks to employees of Fermi National Accelerator Lab in Batavia Tuesday.
Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
Matt Nagy talks about becoming the newest Chicago Bears head coach on Tuesday at Halas Hall in Lake Forest. Nagy is the 16th head coach in Bears history.
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
Schaumburg mayor Al Larson takes a picture with Donovan Pepper, National Director of Local Government Relations of Walgreens at the annual State of the Village address at the Schaumburg Business Association on Tuesday.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
The Cook Memorial Public Library board this month is expected to formally approve a $6.75 million expansion plan for the Aspen Drive Library in Vernon Hills. The expansion would jut out eastward from the wall of windows in the back of the library.
Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com
Elgin resident Greg Schiller, a longtime advocate for the homeless, had been allowing homeless people to sleep in his unfinished basement until the city cited him in late December. He has now stopped doing that, but says there need to be more options for the homeless in Elgin.
Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
Katie Meyer, 13, right, explains parts of the course as Sam Aldrich, 12, left, and Sammy Davies, 12, center, of the Park Addition Lego League prepare to compete in a state Lego League robotics tournament in Elgin. As part of the competition teams also have a service project and a choice to help with clean water awareness in Pakistan.
Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com
Kyle Murphy, head mechanic at Grandt's Shell in Arlington Heights, repairs a car that was leaking fuel due to a seal that had contracted in the cold weather.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Two-year-old Claire Huang eats a cupcake Wednesday at Warren-Newport Public Library in Gurnee. The library was celebrating its 45th anniversary handing out cupcakes and having patrons write out well wishes on a poster.
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
Recreation Supervisor Megan Henness, left, helps Sharon Atchue of Bloomingdale, with information on camp counselors for the summer Awesome Adventure Camp, at the Carol Stream Park District job fair on Wednesday for part-time and seasonal positions. "We've had great success with this job fair", said Henness. "I've met some really great staff through this process", she said of the fair, now in it's third year at the Fountain View Recreation Center in Carol Stream.
Bev Horne/bhorne@dailyherald.com
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