Images: The Week in Pictures
State coordinator Tom Noller, of Libertyville, checks a tax return as AARP Foundation Tax-Aide volunteers help individuals with their taxes Monday at Warren-Newport Public Library. The group helps low- and moderate-income taxpayers prepare their tax returns through April 15.
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
Corinne DeCicco, of Island Lake, is overcome with emotion as she talks about how Ana Fuentes, of Lake Zurich, wrote an essay for a contest that was promoted by Vince O' Leary, of V.M. O'Leary Sheet Metal and Heating of Cary, who she gives a big hug to. She had to carry a space heater from room to room because she could not afford a new unit.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
Jay Wojcik works with Yorktown Mall staff on the set up of the Healthy Lombard Fitness Fair.
Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com
Realtors get a front seat view Tuesday during the Elgin Area Chamber of Commerce bus tour to showcase Elgin.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Richard Klopfenstein, of Elgin, shovels out his driveway Thursday after his snow blower stopped working. The Fox Valley area was blanketed with snow Wednesday night, causing residents to dig out for their morning commutes.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Kindergartner Julia Mayer gives her approval of Be The Groove as they entertain students at Adler Park School in Libertyville on Tuesday. The rhythmic performance ensemble demonstrated music and dance techniques as a mode of expression.
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
Junior Shawn Donley, of Wauconda, asks to take a selfie with Archbishop Blase Cupich as he toured Carmel Catholic High School in Mundelein. Cupich stopped in classrooms, ate lunch with students and talked with teachers and employees during the hour-long visit. I was surprising when a young high school student was bold enough to ask the Archbishop to take a selfie with him. But to his credit, he was personable enough to smile with the students and to take it in stride. It was a very enlightening moment about the personality of the new Archbishop. This photo was originally published in the Perspective column in the print edition of the Daily Herald.
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
Baxter senior scientist Dr. Kevin Lewis, right, shows a human heart to RuthAnne Hall and her sons, Andrew and Jacob, during the Mechanics Grove School science fair Thursday in Mundelein. The theme was "Science, It's Your Turn to Change the World."
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
From left, Kyle Camara, George Hochwarter and Tony Baldacci make their pitch to judges for their non-profit of choice, Sack Lunch Sunday, an organization that distributes 100 lunches a week to the homeless in Chicago. Students at Heineman Middle School in Algonquin are finishing up their "Heineman Apprentice" competition, a bit of a take-off on the TV show.
Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
Kim Turner, of Neuqua Valley High School's marketing team, presents her team's plans for the Naperville Crossings development at 95th Street and Route 59, in a competition dubbed Mission 60564
Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com
Commander Ana Lalley, of the Elgin Police Department, talks to concerned community members Wednesday during Coffee with a Cop at Big Apple Bagels in Elgin.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Rony Alberto shovels snow at St. Paul Lutheran Church and School in Mount Prospect.
George LeClaire/gleclaire@dailyherald.com
Justin Kownacki, 11, of Bartlett, scoups out food that will be weighed and placed into bags as he volunteers at the Feed My Starving Children gathering at the Schaumburg Club at Boomers Stadium on Thursday.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
Robin Theis, of Batavia, treks in her snow shoes near the Fox River through Fabyan Forest Preserve in Geneva Friday. She says she doesn't get out as often as she should but "It's great exercise," she says. "A couple of years ago I decided that I should just embrace winter," she said.
Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
Josh Schmidt, of Naperville, makes some fancy moves to avoid a ball hurled at his head during the fourth annual Dodgin' for Lou Gehrig's Disease Dodgeball Tournament Friday at Naperville North High School.
Paul Michna/pmichna@dailyherald.com
Decades of competition can be seen etched into the hardwood floor of the St. Edward Central Catholic High School gymnasium in Elgin. The only gym at the private school is a unique throwback to old school traditions, compared to so many modern local high schools that may have three or more gymnasiums and fieldhouses. The cramped room is dominated by steep bleachers on massive cement steps on the sides of the floor, a stage and a wall butt up to each baseline and heavy steel beams and large steel lights hang over the playing surface. The sounds of the game, referees whistles, scoreboard horns, announcers calls and cheering crowds all reverberate into a jumbled mass of noise during competitions. But the one thing that always gets my attention is the old floor. The lights reflect the uneven, pockmarked surface, and bring to mind the generations that have played there. 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 originally published in the Perspective column in the print edition of the Daily Herald.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
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