Daily Herald's Photos of the Week
Marquesa Pakenas, 10, of Lombard along with other fifth grade students from Manor Hill School in Lombard show their appetites to learn about business as they serve customers at Egg Harbor Cafe in the Yorktown Shopping Center. Teacher Kathleen Tobin gets a high five after dinner for winning the centerpiece drawing.
Daniel White | Staff Photographer
Dr. Ricardo Senno, a specialist in traumatic brain injury describes the damage a baseball can cause Wednesday while testifying in a Chicago City Council Parks and Recreation Committee meeting. He spoke in favor of a proposed city-wide ban of non-metal bats in competitive baseball.
Mary Beth Nolan | Staff Photographer
Vito Kampe of D.M.D. services works on knocking down one of the buildings at the Illinois Youth Center - Valley View in St. Charles Tuesday; February 24, 2009. The demolition will take more than a month to complete and the location will later become a park. Kampe is using an excavator and has been doing demolition work for the past 11 years.
Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
Dave Sperry of the Calvary Episcopal Church in Batavia burns palms to create ashes in preparation for Ash Wednesday. The ashes are mixed with an oil, then a pastor will then use the ashes to make the sign of the cross on the foreheads of those attending the Ash Wednesday service. The Cross is to show penitence by the person wearing it.
Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
Scott Shepherd of Glenview, as Leonardo da Vinci gets fifth-grader Ellie Gobbilot involved during his interactive program called Strokes of Genius. The program highlights da Vinci's accomplishments during his lifetime.
Steve Lundy | Staff Photographer
Former Chicago Bull great Bob Love gives high fives to students at Fairhaven School in Mundelein. Love gave a motivational talk to the students Monday.
Vincent Pierri | Staff Photographer
A freight train waits at a crossing in downtown West Chicago at Washington Street.
Daniel White | Staff Photographer
Stephanie Girod, a seventh-grade math teacher at John T. Magee Middle School puckers her lips to kiss a 6-week-old hereford hog to help raise money for St. Jude.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, right gets a hug from Aurora resident Pamela Foster, left during White's visit to the Aurora Library Monday. White helpe celebrate Library Lovers Month and promote the President Obama license plate.
Tanit Jarusan | Staff Photographer
Missy Mazur, of Arizona, who grew up in Fox Lake, takes a dip in Fox Lake. The money raised will help provide training and competition for Special Olympians in DuPage, Lake, McHenry and Kane counties.
Mark Black | Staff Photographer
Former St. Matthew's Lutheran School student Jessica Gunderson, 14, talks about her self-published book "How to Keep a Secret for Detectives" at the school in Hawthorn Woods Wednesday. Gunderson, right, is now a freshman at Lake Forest Academy and listens to former eighth grade English teacher Paula Lott talk about her book.
Paul Valade | Staff Photographer
"Santa," aka Ken Ward of Spring Grove, splashed around in Fox Lake Sunday during the Polar Plunge to benefit Special Olympics athletes from the Illinois Northeastern Area 2.
Mark Black | Staff Photographer
Young racers hang on the rail and watch their cars zoom by at the Highland Speedway Elgin Invitational Pinewood Derby. About 160 handmade pine wood cars were entered in 11 age categories.
John Starks | Staff Photographer
Lt. Kevin Pyne, Wauconda Fire District, has a laugh as he had an alfalfa hair cut for a few minutes, until Amy Domick, with Vicie's Personal Touch Salon in Wauconda, finished the cut at St. Baldrick's event at the Wauconda Chamber of Commerce Expo 2009 "Community Showcase" on Saturday at Wauconda High School in honor of Wauconda police officer Eric Schultz who lost a foot to cancer.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
About 20 Algonquin Police Officers had their heads shaved by stylist from Vicie's Personal Touch Salon in Wauconda during the St. Baldrick's event at the Wauconda Chamber of Commerce Expo 2009 "Community Showcase" on Saturday at Wauconda High School.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Abraham Lincoln, performed by Mark Brink, sings Happy Birthday Monday during the City of Waukegan's 150th anniversary celebration at Waukegan City Hall. To the right of Brink are Sen. Terry Link and Waukegan alderman Sam Cunningham.
Gilbert R. Boucher II | Staff Photographer
Four-year-old Mary Puett of Elgin gets to see a bubble from the inside as Bubble juggler Geoff Akins entertains kids of all ages Friday: February 27, 2009 at the Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin.
Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
Teacher, historian and author Glennette Tilley-Turner shows projections as she talks about the history of the Illinois Underground Railroad Sunday at the Batavia Public Library.
John Starks | Staff Photographer
Dean of Students Christine Schmidt of Verno Hills, left has ashes placed on her forehead by student Lindsey Youngs of Great Lakes during an Ash Wednesday prayer service at Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest.
Gilbert R. Boucher II | Staff Photographer
Barbara McNulty of the McNulty School of Irish Dance teaches students a heavy shoe class in Villa Park. Here she works with Emma Thompson, 8 of Riverside.
Bev Horne | Staff Photographer
Starter Bill Boyd lets a race begin from what is normally the pulpit at the Highland Speedway Elgin Invitational Pinewood Derby Sunday at Highland Fellowship Church.
John Starks | Staff Photographer
Students react to math teacher Stephanie Girod as she puckers her lips to kiss a 6-week-old hereford hog to reward students at John T. Magee Middle School in Round Lake for raising money for St. Jude.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Kane Stephey, 1 enjoys his first Paczki ever, with his mom Jami, of Des Plaines at Paczki Fest at The Continental Bakery in Mount Prospect. The bakery has hosting the last day of its annual event the day before Ash Wednesday. The bakery sells over 50,000 paczkis over a six-day period of time, and if any are left on Wednesday they are sold for half price, according to manager Robert Czerniak.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Jay Retzinger of Mundelein plays with Atticus, his German Short Hair Pointer, who seems to disappear into the snowy background at the Lakewood Dog Exercise Area near Wauconda.
Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer
Sunday's program at the Batavia Public Library was one of a number of special programs in conjunction with the library's "One Book, One Batavia" community read program.
John Starks | Staff Photographer
Neubert Elementary fifth-grader Ben Kessler dressed as Ben Franklin during the school's annual wax museum presentation. As his classmate Alexandra Kontos gives her presentation on Molly Pitcher, Kessler got a little restless standing on stage for a half-hour. Both students are from Algonquin.
Christopher Hankins | Staff Photographer
After falling on the ice recently while clearing her driveway at her Elgin home Connie Bieschke saw that her neighbors Mark and Laura Skelzynski had made a snow sculpture depicting her accident. The snow woman was complete with a shovel and gaping mouth. Bieschke broke left arm and was supposed to have the first cast of her life put on but was able to only have a splint. "Everything is correct with the sculpture, but I take exception with the backside" Bieschke said with a chuckle.
Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
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