Photo Gallery: Best Daily Herald drone photos of 2024
Posted December 22, 2024 7:10 am
Daily Herald photojournalists and FAA licensed drone pilots Brian Hill, Joe Lewnard, John Starks and Paul Valade share some of their favorite photos taken from the air in 2024. Drone photography offers a unique perspective of the communities the Daily Herald covers.
A 20 x 38 foot American flag hangs over the Schaumburg VFW Post 2202 annual Veterans Day ceremony at Veterans Gateway Park in Schaumburg.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
Crews work on the ComEd substation section of a future Microsoft data center just east of Barrington Road along Lakewood Boulevard in Hoffman Estates. The station will serve Microsoft’s 53-acre campus just north of Bell Works Chicagoland.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
The former Indian Lakes Resort will reopen as Prairle Lakes Resort once the Bloomingdale hotel along Schick Road is revitalized. A honeycomb-shaped glass roof makes this property’s design unique.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
Shoppers at the Jewel-Osco grocery store on Route 12 in Lake Zurich traverse the snow-covered parking lot as residents go about their day on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
A home was leveled at the 23500 block of North Overhill Road, after an explosion destroyed it in unincorporated Lake Zurich, Ill., Wednesday, June 5, 2024.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
Volunteers install almost 1600 flags Thursday, May 23, 2024 at Randall Oaks Park in West Dundee. The display was part of the traveling Vietnam memorial.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Silver Lake in Blackwell Forest Preserve Saturday, April 13, 2024 in Warrenville.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Golfers finish the third hole at Pottawatomie Park Friday, May 10, 2024 in St. Charles.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Demolition continues at the Former Sears headquarters Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024 in Hoffman Estates. The property will be developed into data centers.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Crews continue to work on a $1.2 million project to remove the Carpentersville Dam Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. The project, which will be finished in November, will create a 10.2-mile unimpeded flow of the Fox River — the longest free-flowing stretch through Kane County.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Looking southeast, lights brighten Milwaukee Avenue in downtown Libertyville after dark on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Three hockey players skate on a rink in Frontier Park in Arlington Heights on a cold and snowy night with temperatures hovering around zero degrees. The colorful ice and snow is a reflection of overhead lights that are not daylight balanced.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
A mountain biker pedals through trails in the former Meadowdale International Raceway track area on Route 31 in Carpentersville on March 7, 2024. The area used to host auto racing on a paved, twisting rack in the 1950s and 1960s and is now used for walking, hiking and off-road biking. Some of the original paved track is still used by people coming to the area.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
The setting sun reflects on clouds over East Dundee and West Dundee along the Fox River.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Mundelein Parks and Recreation District is starting a master plan process for it’s facilities on Diamond Lake.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.
Trails at forest preserves, including this one at Independence Grove in Lake County near Libertyville, offer an option to take part in winter activities.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Canadian Pacific steam locomotive 2816, the “Empress,” rolls through a Northbrook railroad junction while on a journey from Calgary, Alberta to Mexico city that included a visit to the Chicago area last week.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Trees reach their peak fall color at the Paul Douglas Preserve on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024 in Hoffman Estates.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Wearing a fresh coat of orange paint trimmed with green, black and white and resting atop a farm silo, “Happy Jack,” an 18-foot wide by 15-foot tall fiberglass pumpkin, has been drawing visitors to Goebbert's Farm in South Barrington since 1979. The pumpkin was repainted during the Spring of this year.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
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