The week in photos
Rafael Cornejo, an employee with Des Plaines Elks Lodge No. 1526, blows snow on a 7-foot pile of snow that covers a parking sign in the lodge's lot downtown.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Jo Barber snow blows in front of her home in Des Plaines in freezing and blowing wind.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
A buffalo stands tall at Fermilab, amid more snow last week.
Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
Nine-year-old Trevor Keefe of Hainesville and his brother, Kyle, 10, make crafts out of pipe cleaners and clothes pins during Winterfest 2009 at Volo Bog State Natural Area.
Gilbert R. Boucher II | Staff Photographer
With the air temperature at minus 7 on Thursday, Des Plaines Park District worker Manuel Gomez sprays water to make ice for the rink at Cornell Park.
JOE LEWNARD PHOTO
Carmel girls unite before the start of the Lake County Invite girls gymnastics meet at Lake Forest.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Exhaust plumes become dreamlike as they meet with air temperatures near ten below zero during the early evening rush hour on Route 72 in downtown West Dundee Thursday.
John Starks | Staff Photographer
Lots of snow has delayed the return of holiday decorations to attics across the suburbs, including this choir decoration on Central Street in Glenview.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
As arctic weather enters the area, Hoffman Estates firefighters respond to a house fire on Alder Lane.
Daniel White | Staff Photographer
Roger Schiller, right, and Chris Strong of Heartland Express perform during Winterfest 2009 at Volo Bog State Natural Area.
Gilbert R. Boucher II | Staff Photographer
Ken Kreischer of Barrington does some cross country skiing Sunday in the Deer Grove Forest Preserve in Palatine.
Mark Black | Staff Photographer
Amanda Baittie a senior on Vernon Hills High school pom pon squad leads a dance workout at the Junior Cougar Pom Clinic at the high school.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
A pedestrian navigates the maze of snow piles in the Spring Hill Mall parking lot Thursday as air temperatures dip below zero in West Dundee.
John Starks | Staff Photographer
Griffin Witz, 7, of Elgin, concentrates on his hammer aim as his mom Kimberly holds a nail, during an event at the Hawthorn Nature Center in Elgin. Children built flower pot stands and art easels during the program, sponsored by the Elgin Parks and Recreation Department and Home Depot.
John Starks | Staff Photographer
Buffalo Grove Streets Department worker Drew Peters shovels while co-worker Bill Litwiler operates a backhoe to repair a water main break along Stillwater Drive. The break occurred Saturday afternoon.
Gilbert R. Boucher II | Staff Photographer
Ducks and geese deal with the sub zero weather by staying in Salt Creek.
Mark Black | Staff Photographer
A buck walks through the snow-covered forest in St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein after snow fell in Lake County.
Gilbert R. Boucher II | Staff Photographer
Staff Sgt. Justin Gullion of the Illinois Army National Guard holds up a piece of shrapnel he pulled out of the engine of the hum-v he was driving when it was hit by and improvised explosive device (IED) while in Iraq.
Mark Black | Staff Photographer
The Illinois Commission on Diversity and Human Rights hosts the annual Martin Luther King celebration with speeches and performances.
Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer
Maddie Marx, 9, left and Nina Gary, 10, and other girls from the Navajo tribe in Arlington Heights eat doughnuts in their sled. Members of the Indian Princess program created sleds out of cardboard and duct tape and raced them at the sled hill at Melas Park in Mount Prospect.
Gilbert R. Boucher II | Staff Photographer
Armed police stopped a commuter train in Lisle, but commuters were eventually allowed back on.
Scott Sanders | Staff Photographer
Jen Adelman-McCgarthy demonstrates both dog-sledding and skijoring at Fermilab on Wednesday.
Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
Armed police stopped a commuter train in Lisle last week after a report of a man with a gun.
Scott Sanders | Staff Photographer
A coyote hunts for food at the island at Twin Lakes Recreation Center in Palatine.
Bill Zars | Staff Photographer
Yasmine Butler of Elgin bows her head in prayer at the start of the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. prayer breakfast at Elgin Community College.
Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer
Passengers crowd to the doors to reboard a commuter train in Lisle, en route to Chicago. The train was evacuated after a report of a man with a gun. He turned out to be a Secret Service agent.
Scott Sanders | Staff Photographer
Snow clings to trees along Western Avenue in Geneva, as more snow fell across the area last week.
Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
Toting an AR15 rifle, Lisle police Det. Justin Louis tells passengers that the train would be backed up and switched to the track by the platform, so they could reboard after a search. Police stopped a commuter train in Lisle after a report of someone with a gun on the train. All the passengers were taken off the train and the train was searched. It turned out to be a miscommunication with a Secret Service agent, who was legally carrying a gun.
Scott Sanders | Staff Photographer
There's something beautiful about tire marks in the freshly fallen snow on the roadways, creating patterns and showing that someone took some effort in backing up into a driveway in Elk Grove.
Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer
Steam rises on the Fox River in Carpentersville along the Fox River Shores Forest Preserve as cold weather enveloped the suburbs.
Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
Fermilab physicist Jerry Zimmerman shows what happens when dish soap and liquid nitrogen mix at the Fermilab Family Open House in Batavia. Zimmerman, who works with cryogenics at the lab, is also known as Mr. Freeze.
Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer
His heart pounding with every step in newly fallen deep snow, Karl Deutschmann, of Palatine, gets his morning exercise around Twin Lakes.
Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer
Joey Swanson, 15, of Algonquin, breathes into air temperatures near ten below zero as he plays hockey with goggles on with friend Chris Adam in Prairie Meadow Park in West Dundee Thursday.
John Starks | Staff Photographer
Ice crystals on a window in Lily Lake sparkle at sunrise.
Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer
Ken Chaplin of Des Plaines took his dog Corrina to Beck Lake to chase snow balls, but instead she decided to eat the snow. Beck Lake is in Cook County at Golf Road and I-294.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
A mother and son walk carefully through a snow-covered downtown Algonquin neighborhood on Wednesday.
Christopher Hankins | Staff Photographer
Tryouts for the Chicago Slaughter, an indoor professional football team that plays at the Sears Centre.
Daniel White | Staff Photographer
As cold weather enters the area, Hoffman Estates firefighters respond to a house fire on Alder Lane.
Daniel White | Staff Photographer
Six-year-old Alana Herr of the Tetons tribe screams from the front as she joins other girls in flying down the sled hill in their cardboard entry, as members of the Indian Princess programs created sleds and raced them at Melas Park in Mount Prospect.
Gilbert R. Boucher II | Staff Photographer
Cataline, 12, Sherry, and Logan Jackson-Debo, 11, of Antioch look over the gear that Illinois Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Justin Gullion brought to the Lake County Discovery Museum near Wauconda Sunday.
Mark Black | Staff Photographer
One of the dogs gets away for a short while and enjoys the snow.
Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
Lombard residents Paul Castaldo and his son Jasper sled down a hill at Sunset Knoll Park in Lombard.
Tanit Jarusan | Staff Photographer
Chris Petrovski-Klein jogs around Pioneer Park in Arlington Heights as an arctic weather plunge enters the area. She runs about 25-30 miles a week around the park.
Daniel White | Staff Photographer
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