LOOK: The Week in Pictures photo gallery for Sept. 15-28, 2025
Resident Joanne Moore nuzzles a doll during a “doll therapy” session at Indigo Senior Living on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025 in Elmhurst.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Nolan Chalekian focuses on an activity at the Glen Ellyn Elementary District 41 Kindergarten Center on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025 in Glen Ellyn.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
A guest makes his way through a scene depicting ancient Egypt during a media preview ahead of the Friday grand opening of EXP, a 26,000-square-foot virtual-reality venue in The Pearl District in Rosemont, on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. EXP will launch with two large-scale immersive expeditions: Horizon of Khufu and Life Chronicles.
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A handful of soccer players hit the turf on a sunny morning at the Wheaton Warrenville South’s Red Grange Field on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025. The Community Unit School District 200 Facebook page says Harold “Red” Grange (1903-1991) played football for Wheaton High School and scored 75 touchdowns. He went on to play for the University of Illinois’ Illini football team.
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Parent Linda Prestia, left, of Carpentersville joined around 60 others Monday, Sept. 15, 2025 at the Community Unit School District 300 central office in Algonquin demanding that board president Nancy Zettler resigns following her comments related to the death of activist Charlie Kirk.
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Warm early morning sunlight casts a shadow on a worker at the downtown Crystal Lake enhancement project near the gazebo in Depot Park along Woodstock street on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. Improvements to the park will include additional seating and dining areas, a performance and gathering space and updated landscaping.
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Principal Bob Cerny talks to third-grade students during their lunch period on the first day of classes at Whittier Elementary Wednesday, August 17, 2022 in Wheaton. Cerny is the new principal at the school and is a familiar face in District 200 having served in the District since 1998 in a variety of roles including 21 years as Whittier’s School Psychologist, District Student Support Specialist, Director of Student Services in Virtual Academy, and most recently as Assistant Principal at Pleasant Hill Elementary.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
A pedestrian walks his dog down the Lake Zurich promenade along the lake on Monday, Sept. 16, 2025. Improvements along the promenade on Main Street include new brickwork and landscaping along the boardwalk.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
Carmen Rodriguez of Elgin reacts during a prayer vigil for immigrants rights at First Presbyterian Church of Elgin Wednesday.
Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
Work continues on the Arbor House apartment development in Arlington Heights on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025. The Chicago-based real estate firm Bradford Allen is building 300-plus apartments at the southeast corner of Arlington Heights and Algonquin roads.
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Dan Benway reacts from his wheelchair as his daughter Grace marries Thomas Decourcey at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights on Thursday afternoon, Sept. 18, 2025. They moved their wedding so he could attend while taking pancreatic cancer treatment.
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Dan Benway shares a moment with his family after his daughter Grace married Thomas Decourcey in the butterfly garden at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights on Thursday afternoon, Sept. 18, 2025. Dan has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and they moved thier wedding so could attend.
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Patrick Echeverry, 3, gently touches the horn of an animatronic triceratops at the Gail Borden Library in Elgin. The Dinosaur Explorer exhibit runs until Jan. 4. His mom Erica Samudio is holding him. They’re from Elgin.
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John Cordogan and his sister, Diane Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025 at Cordogan's Pianoland in Geneva. Cordogan's Pianoland is celebrating the piano store's 75th anniversary in early October.
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Mike Witte carries two steins of beer for himself and his wife Mary Ellen, who live nearby, at the Palatine Rotary Club Oktoberfest in downtown Palatine on Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. They were celebrating the festival with friends Diana and Brian O’Banion, formerly of Arlington Heights, who came from Austin, Texas in part for the festival.
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Elaine Schreck and her son Eddie, 3, both of Arlington Heights dance at Oktoberfest at the Arlington Heights Historical Museum Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025 in Arlington Heights.
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The Society of Danube Swabians’ youth group performs at Oktoberfest at the Arlington Heights Historical Museum Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025 in Arlington Heights. The Society of Danube Swabians of Chicago is a German ethnic and charitable, educational, cultural society whose original members are mainly immigrants.
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Family members of Korean War veteran Eriverto Ortiz unveil a street named in his honor Saturday.
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Alice Harper, 10, of Batavia rolls her dough out so she can make a basketweave design for her challah bread at Congregation Kneseth Israel in Elgin Sunday in preparation for Rosh Hashanah.
Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
Curator Jessica Waszak speaks during a preview for the “So Ready for Laughter: The Legacy of Bob Hope” exhibit at Cantigny on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025 in Wheaton.
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Dozens of people who are part of a habitat restoration project meet with Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle as she visits Deer Grove East Forest Preserve in Palatine Wednesday to talk about the 19-year project and nearly 600 acres of native habitat restoration that has taken place to mitigate habitat lost to O'Hare Airport expansion.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
A Metra train leaves the Metra station Wednesday, July 16, 2025 in Cary. The Downtown Streetscape Project construction has started.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Resident Judy Feensta participates in a “doll therapy” session with Life Enrichment Coordinator Kayley Stoner at Indigo Senior Living on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025 in Elmhurst.
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Sofia Prokopenko, 2, of Huntley dances with other children as the Mr. Myers band plays a theme from Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” movie during the 20th Annual Fall Fest at Deicke Park in Huntley on Sunday, September 28, 2025.
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Evelyn McClelland, 5, of Huntley has her face painted during the 20th Annual Fall Fest at Deicke Park in Huntley on Sunday, September 28, 2025.
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