Images: It was a colorful Week in Pictures
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Owner Dean VandenBiesen, of LifeGem in Des Plaines holds a diamond that his company created. The company turns the remains of loved ones into diamonds.
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
Jim Smiewec, of St. Charles holds his eight-month-old son Eugene to get a closer look at a giant swan in the children's library section of the St. Charles Library Friday.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Jay Womack holds his grandson Noah, 2, while his granddaughter Haylee, 4, laughs at the Earth Day T-shirt she helped paint Saturday at a Peck Farm Park event in Geneva. She is wearing a grass hat she made in school. Jay Womack is an organizer of the event and was also planting trees with help from the Geneva High School Environmental Club.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Army veteran Matt Woodin of Plano, left, Mara Bell of Munich, Germany, center, and Jim Elliott, Diveheart founder and president of Veterans Scuba, dive once a month through the Dive Heart Foundation program at the Vaughan Athletic Center in Aurora.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Fifth graders watch members of the Prairie Crossing Environment Management Team burn a prairie for students at Prairie Crossing Charter School Wednesday in Grayslake. The group was teaching students the importance of prescribed burns for the ecology.
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
Orange and purple stand out on a mannequin displaying a wig and sunglasses during the Zurko Antique and Flea Market at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Grayslake recently. The items were being sold by Sheila Rivera of Real Vintage Swag, Libertyville.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Rylie Plutz, 13, of Rolling Meadows holds her cellphone near her forehead to play a charades type game of called "Heads Up". This photo was taken during a break at a recent Youth Entrepreneur Academy event in Palatine. In this Perspective photo, I liked the intensity of the other girls trying to provide the best clue for Rylie Plutz to guess a word on her phone. This photo was published in the Pespective column in the print editions of the Daily Herald.
Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com
Student chef Zenia Santellan Delapaz, a senior at Elgin High School, carefully watches a frying pan mixture as thee four-person team practices for national competition by creating a three-course meal in 60 minutes at the school Tuesday.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Lyndsay Hartman has started a needle exchange program out of her Batavia apartment and car, after losing a friend to drug abuse.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
York High School student Linnea Dierksheide removes nonnative species to help maintain Elmhurst's stretch of 10,000-year-old prairie during Great Western Prairie Work Day.
Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com
So this picture was a mistake. I was at an Elgin High School welding class recently doing a story on how they earned accreditation from the American Welding Society. I was talking to an instructor when I saw a kid at the grinder. Sparks, and most shiny things really, make me go "oooooh," so I whipped my camera up to my eye to start making some pictures. Problem was I didn't adjust any exposure settings so it's tragically underexposed. Still, I thought it was kind of a fun frame so it didn't get consigned to the pixel trash bin for all eternity like most pictures that are about 10 stops underexposed. This photo was published in the Pespective column in the print editions of the Daily Herald.
Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
Jacqueline Prado, left, Zenia Santellan Delapaz, Karen Nava and Brian Onofre, right, are student chefs at Elgin High School. They practice for national competition by creating a three-course meal in 60 minutes at the school Tuesday.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Eight-yer-old Carolena Moore paints a rock during the second annual Earth Day gathering Sunday at Millennium Park in Fox Lake. The event featured representatives and environmentalists from Promote Fox Lake, Citizens Climate Lobby, Lake County Audubon Society and ComEd.
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
Tim Betzolt, of Michigan City, IN carefully checks over a Match Box Racing Transporter before purchasing it during a visit to the Antique and Collectible Toy & Doll Show held at the Kane County Fairgrounds on Sunday, April 22, 2018.
Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com
Scoutmaster Dan Chachakis, of Boy Scout Troop 185 of Forest Park holds his 19-month-old grandson, Kenny, as he packs seeds with his wife, Marcy, during seed collection by volunteers Sunday at Willow Creek Church in South Barrington. Over four days, 20,000 volunteers packed 1 million bags of seeds to distribute to serial countries in Africa.
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
Students check out the artwork by Mundelein High School senior Ryan Story during at Mundelein All-Area Art Show in the school's main gym Thursday.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
Students are out front at the start of the ABC/25 Foundation Just Move It! Challenge 5K run/walk at South Middle School in Arlington Heights Saturday.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Mother Wilma's Marshmallow Factory is among the vendors present during Saturday's Lake County Food Truck Frenzy hosted by the Exchange Club of Grayslake at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Grayslake Saturday.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Famed Chicago Meteorologist Tom Skilling greets people Saturday at the Sustainable Energy Expo at Countryside Church in Palatine. He spoke about climate change.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
The "Dink for Hope" pickleball tournament organizers, Dana Joseph of Palatine and Thea Froehling of Arlington Heights, play a match at the Wheeling Community Recreation Center.
Mark Black/mblack@dailyherald.com
Monday's nicer weather gave Fox River Forest Preserve trail users a chance to get outside and enjoy spring.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
Thomas Schulz, owner of Best Pest Control in Palatine, uses a gel material along with two different sprays, which will work together to fight a carpenter ant issue in a Rolling Meadows home. The ants will track the gel material back to their colony and eventually kill the queen.
Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com
Rev. Kris Hewitt, of the Ivanhoe Congregational Church near Mundelein clears the grave of Mercy Payne who he credits as the founder of the church which opened in February of 1838.
Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com
David Riley of Barrington, right, shares a laugh and a meal with his brother-in-law Steve at the Arlington Heights McDonald's Tuesday.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Chicago Botanic Garden visitors view the corpse flower, which smells like a rotting corpse when it blooms.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Students react as "Pretty Little Liars" actor Keegan Allen speaks to Metea Valley High School Thursday about his second book, Hollywood: Photos and Stories from Foreverland.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
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