Look: The Week in Photos gallery for Nov. 3-16, 2025
Daily Herald photographers were all over the Chicago suburbs to find the brightest pictures of the first half of November. Did we come to your neighborhood?
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker gives two thumbs up while trying a sensory egg chair during a tour of the new building of the Philip J. Rock Center & School in Glen Ellyn on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. Gov. Pritzker helped officials with their ribbon cutting ceremony at the school for its deaf and blind residents.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
After being the main attraction for weeks, a few pumpkins, one with a visible look of concern, are piled on top of a garbage can destined for the landfill Monday along Main Street near downtown Glen Ellyn.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
The northern lights stretched across the suburbs Tuesday evening, giving residents a chance to photograph the vibrant colors of the aurora borealis. A drone photo captures the lights over Route 176 in McHenry County.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
A man fishes near where the Graue Mill dam was removed from Salt Creek in Oak Brook. The area is showing signs of new life with improved habitat and the return of native fish species, officials say. Restoration efforts continued this year with the planting of some 50,000 native wetland plugs.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Kennedy, a French bulldog that was rescued from an illegal breeding/hoarding situation in south suburban Riverdale, gets attention from Anne Epson of Hoffman Estates, who is providing foster care for the dog prior to adoption.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Jeff Rud, of Lake in the Hills helps install a door Friday, Nov. 7, 2025 in St. Charles. Habitat for Humanity of Northern Fox Valley is building a home in St. Charles, one of many homes being built throughout Chicago and the suburbs.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Wolves Mascot Skates, poses for a photo after a ribbon cutting for the new Rosemont Ice Arena Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025 in Rosemont. The twin-sheet, 103,000-square-foot indoor arena doubles as the new Chicago Wolves practice facility and hub for youth hockey clubs.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
The trebuchet swings into the action after student Zion Li pulls the activation rope during the College of Lake County’s pumpkin collection and launch on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025 in Grayslake.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Naperville Mayor Scott Wehrli pauses to take a picture of the flags as part of the Naperville Healing Field of Honor at Rotary Hill in Naperville on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025.
Patrick Kunzer/ for the Daily Herald
The Vietnam Wall of Remembrance was displayed as part of the Naperville Healing Field of Honor at Rotary Hill in Naperville on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. The wall includes the names of more than 58,000 service members who gave their lives in Vietnam between 1957 and 1975.
Patrick Kunzer/ for the Daily Herald
George Hitchcock of Barrington Hills, a 101-year-old World War II veteran, was the pilot of a B-17 bomber during the war. He is the last living survivor of a failed mission over the North Sea in 1945, and decades later he has struck up a friendship with the daughter of one of the airmen who didn't survive.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
George Hitchcock of Barrington Hills, a 101-year-old World War II veteran, was the pilot of a B-17 bomber during the war. Wanting to show that his uniform jacket still fits, he gets help putting it on from his wife Lola.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
WWII Army Veteran Duane Stevenson of St. Charles, who turned 102 on Veterans Day, waves to the crowd as they sing happy birthday to him during the St. Charles Veterans Day ceremony Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025 at Fire Station 1.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Flags fly in the wind as Brandon Tole, of American Legion Post 158 delivers the keynote address during the Barrington Veterans Day ceremony on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Navy veteran Bob Balsamo bows his head during the benediction at Elgin’s Veterans Day ceremony Tuesday.
Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
Lt. Col. Gina Stramaglio, of American Legion Post 158 salutes during the playing of the National Anthem during the Barrington Veterans Day ceremony on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
The Northern Lights are visible over a pond near Barrington and Higgins Rds. in Hoffman Estates on Tuesday evening, Nov. 11, 2025.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
A severe geomagnetic storm made the northern lights visible in Elgin Tuesday night.
Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
A sea of red overtakes the sky above a Huntley-area barn on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025 as the northern lights stretched across the suburbs.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
Eren Loza is the founder and executive director of Roots & Wings, a social service nonprofit assisting immigrants to acclimate into American culture. She poses with a prop used at the business at the Bensenville facility on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Conant High School student Makayla Williams inspects a t-rex skull on loan from the Field Museum Monday, Nov. 10, 2025 in Hoffman Estates.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.
Damaris Lopez, 11, works out a problem with her team during STEM Day Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025 at College of Lake County in Grayslake.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Jen Kalmus of Round Lake and an Antioch teacher, checks a wrist device at the start line before the GCHS Booster Club Turkey Trot 5K Run/Walk begins on Nov. 16, 2025 at Grayslake Central High School in Grayslake. She commented the event is “about lifting spirits and just having a good time.”
Karie Angell Luc/for the Daily Herald