LOOK: the Week in Pictures photo gallery
Caroline Grieper, 5, from Arlington Heights cheers as her dad plays against Gurnee in the suburban fire department hockey tournament at “Fire on Ice“ event in Arlington Heights.
Sofía Oyarzún/soyarzun@dailyherald.com
Players from the Evanston and Lake Bluff Fire Departments’ hockey teams race to get the puck to score an end-of-the-game goal at the “Fire on Ice” event in Arlington Heights.
Sofía Oyarzún/soyarzun@dailyherald.com
Morgan Goldman, 17, of Woodstock shares a moment with her steer Theo on the final day of the 2025 McHenry County Fair in Woodstock on Sunday, August 3, 2025.
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Luke Bauer, 10, of the Busy Three 4H Club from Ringwood cleans the beef barn with others on the final day of the 2025 McHenry County Fair in Woodstock on Sunday, August 3, 2025.
Patrick Kunzer/for the Daily Herald
A crew of three men with squeegees spread an acrylic surface on the Palatine High School tennis courts in July. The sun reflecting on the left edge gives the scene a three-dimentional look. The site of a dozen courts will be a host of the IHSA state tennis championship series later in the school year.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Avrie Lilly, 18, left, Malcolm Wilson, 17, and Gia Mangriotis, 16, right, are pictured with Annabelle Mique of Alignment Collaborative for Education in front of a mural the three high school students painted at the YMCA in Elgin.
Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
Renee Pollino, the owner of a bustling coffee shop and shared work space in downtown Wheaton, has opened The Kilns, a posh co-working space two doors from the coffee house.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
John Hersey High School Head Librarian Bruce Janu talks about the school’s namesake on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025 in the Arlington Heights school. Janu is the resident expert on the school’s namesake, John Hersey, who chronicled the event.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
The Pino Farina Band plays to a large crowd at the Buffalo Grove National Night Out event at the Mike Rylko Community Park in Buffalo Grove on Tuesday, August 5, 2025. Most of the band grew up in Buffalo Grove.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
1960 Lucent Lane, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025 in Naperville. Historically a component of the Nokia Campus, consisting of approximately 40 acres of vacant land generally located on the northwest corner of Warrenville Road and Naperville Road in the City of Naperville. It's the proposed site of a new data center.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
A sign in the main office gets cleaned at a ribbon cutting event to show off the new $3.5 million transformation of the main foyer and front offices at John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights on Wednesday, August 8, 2025.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Children peak into the cockpit of an aircraft at the DuPage Airport’s annual free back-to-school celebration with the city of West Chicago Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025 in West Chicago. Students could sit inside airplane cockpits and meet pilots, explore airport emergency vehicles, experience flight simulators, meet local first responders, and enjoy lunch and music on the tarmac.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Kids help push the newly-welcomed Tower 52 fire truck into station 52 of the Schaumburg Fire Department, at the Wet Down Dedication Ceremony.
Sofía Oyarzún/soyarzun@dailyherald.com
Firefighter Reese Samin helps kids spray the water hose at the new Tower 52 fire truck, to welcome it to station 52 of the Schaumburg Fire Department, at the Wet Down Dedication Ceremony.
Sofía Oyarzún/soyarzun@dailyherald.com
Joan Olson, chief communications officer for DuPage County, left, DuPage County Board Chair Deb Conroy and Deputy Director Behavioral Health Services Lori Carnahan, standing at right, test some of the new furniture in the children’s service area at the new DuPage County Crisis Recovery Center Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025 in Wheaton. The center will serve as an alternative to hospital emergency rooms. Family members, emergency medical services workers and law enforcement officials will be able to bring adults and young people experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis to the new facility.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Owners of the contestants of The Great Corgi Dash place their corgis into their cubbies, where they wait for the race to begin, at the Shenanigans on the Green festival in Hoffman Estates.
Sofía Oyarzún/soyarzun@dailyherald.com
Corgis participating in The Great Corgi Dash race from their cubbies to meet their owners at the finish line, at the Shenanigans on the Green festival in Hoffman Estates.
Sofía Oyarzún/soyarzun@dailyherald.com
Lottie, an integrated milk snake, serves as an ambassador for Anderson Humane Wildlife Center in Elburn.
Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
Monday was the first day of the 150th school year of Palatine High School and seniors formed a giant "150" on the football field before being marched into the building by the band's drumline.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
Kindergartner Omar Garcia is not enthusiastic about having to leave his mom Isabelle Nuñez for the first day of school at Washington Elementary School in Elgin.
Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
Lorelei Klinginsmith keeps an eye out for friends while holding the sign to show where her first grade class should line up during the first day of school at Washington Elementary School in Elgin Monday. The school, built in 1891, will close at the end of the school year.
Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
107-year-old Janet Robinson makes a joke that cracks up Elgin Police Chief Ana Lalley during a celebration for four residents of The Vines Senior Home in Elgin who are all over 100.
Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
Larry Stoklosa, of Palatine sees Dr. Jacqueline Ivey-Brown, an internal medicine physician at Advocate Health Care and Chief Medical Officer of the North Illinois Area, for the first time Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025 in Barrington for the first time since Dr. Ivey-Brown helped save his life on a flight in May that originated in Italy.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Lines form at all five rib vendors at the Little Bear Ribfest Friday, Aug. 15, in Century Park in Vernon Hills.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Riley Marohl, of Fargo North Dakota is all smiles as he gets his photo take with the Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes, the band in the Mos Eisley cantina scene in Star Wars during the FAN EXPO Chicago 2025 Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025 at at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Abbi Rago of Lombard dressed as Glenda from Wicked heads to meet fans during FAN EXPO Chicago 2025 Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Penelope Fierros, 3, of Arlington Heights, makes a bee finger puppet craft with pipe cleaners during Honey Fest on Sunday, August 17, 2025 at Heritage Farm at Spring Valley in Schaumburg. The free event celebrated all things honey, including the bees who make it, with historic demonstrations, crafts and honey tastings.
Ryan Rayburn / for the Daily Herald