Look: The Week in Pictures photo gallery
Daily Herald photographers bring you their best photos from the Chicago suburbs to close out July.
Roy Rivas applauds with the crowd at a Night of Remembrance event for Orlando Rivas, his son who was a Buffalo Grove High School security guard who was killed while protecting students from a falling light pole at the school. The event was at Finn McCool’s Irish Sports Pub in Wheeling on Tuesday evening, July 21, 2026.
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Gurnee police detective Garrett Parsell measures a small blue gill caught by Aziel Ortega, 4, during the fourth annual Cops & Bobbers fishing event at Hunt Club Park Wednesday, July 22, 2026 in Gurnee. (John Starks/Daily Herald)
Isaiah Gonzalez feeds funnel cake to his pregnant wife Nataly at the annual Sugar Grove Corn Boil event Thursday, July 23, 2026 in Sugar Grove. They live nearby. (John Starks/Daily Herald)
Citizens for conservation volunteer Wendy Paulson, of Barrington, talks about the compass plant during a tour of Grigsby Prairie at Buckley and Oak Knoll Roads west of Barrington on Monday, July 20, 2026.
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Sisters Lydia Rotert, 4, left, and Joanna, 6 1/2, keep their distance from a long necked turkey at the annual DuPage County Fair Friday, July 24, 2026 in Wheaton. They were visiting their grandparents in Wheaton. (John Starks/Daily Herald)
Geese paddle near algae blooms Wednesday, July 22, 2026 in Lombard at the East Branch off-leash dog area, which is part of DuPage county Forest. (Brian Hill/Daily Herald)
Campers make a splash at the bottom of the water slide at Barefoot Bay on Wednesday, July 22, 2026 in Mundelein. (Joe Lewnard/Daily Herald)
Dancers from BFH (Ballet Folklorico Huehuecoyotl) perform during the Streamwood Summer Celebration Parade in Streamwood on Saturday, July 25, 2026. (Joe Lewnard/Daily Herald)
“I get to walk around and be a faerie all day? How awesome is that?” said Allison Mack of Palatine who was volunteering at the 3rd annual Faeries of the Forest Saturday, July 25, 2026 at at Vasa Park, in South Elgin. (Brian Hill/Daily Herald)
A storm cloud moves southeast over Northwest Highway in Palatine Monday, July 27, 2026. (John Starks/Daily Herald)
Austin Doering, 14, of Wheaton, plays catch with five-year-old Hawk Hayes of Downers Grove, during Buddy Baseball Tuesday, July 28, 2026, at Briar Patch Park in Wheaton. The Wheaton Junior Woman's Club started Buddy Baseball in 1991. It pairs disabled players with "buddies," like a Unified Special Olympics team. (Brian Hill/Daily Herald)
Coach Dan McCabe of Carol Stream works with “CJ” (reflected in glasses) during Buddy Baseball Tuesday, July 28, 2026, at Briar Patch Park in Wheaton. McCabe has been involved with the program for more than 20 years. (Brian Hill/Daily Herald)
Storm clouds roll over the Elgin area on Monday, July 27, 2026. Powerful storms dumped heavy rain and caused damage in DuPage County. (Paul Valade/Daily Herald)
Maggie Seidenstricker, 12, of Gurnee blows bubbles in the interactive bubble zone during the first day of the Lake County Fair in Grayslake on Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (Joe Lewnard/Daily Herald)
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Charlotte Rink, 10, who lives near Bannockburn, embraces her brown swiss spring calf “Fashion,” which was raised on a farm near Harvard, as she pauses between chores during the first day of the Lake County Fair in Grayslake on Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (Joe Lewnard/Daily Herald)
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Volunteer Lola Tiefenthal guides her grocery cart through the aisles as she packs food for a “neighbor” at Peoples Resource Center in Wheaton Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (John Starks/Daily Herald)
The original, hand-painted backdrop remains backstage as people tour the Catlow Theater to see progress on the restoration of the 1927 venue in Barrington Tuesday, July 28, 2026. (John Starks/Daily Herald)
Eric Dotson, of Arlington Heights, looks at the sticker on his cup as he an his wife Melanie walk around the Arlington Heights alfresco outdoor dining area Thursday, July 30, 2026. A new “sip and stroll” program allows customers of the downtown zone to carry alcoholic drinks with them inside the perimeter of the area in Arlington Heights. The Dotsons said their hometown of Columbus, Ohio has had a similar program in place already. (John Starks/Daily Herald)