Images: Best 2013 photos Cook/Lake counties
A sectional boys soccer matchup between Grayslake Central and Antioch took place in a total downpour.
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Schaumburg defensive back Edwin Kelly reflects on the field after the clock expired with Glenbard West defeating Schaumburg in a quarterfinal playoff game.
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Wauconda resident Tom Gorski utilized a beautiful fall morning by fishing on Bangs Lake. Gorski used hip waders to get a little farther out in the water.
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Countryside firefighters maneuver through a smoke filled building during search and rescue training at the former Pier One Imports in Vernon Hills.
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Vitali Smarhun, of Chicago, gets close with a boa constrictor from The Chicago Herpetological Society during the Chicago Outdoor Sports Show Sunday at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont.
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Firefighter Jason Stockton, of the Lincolnshire-Riverwoods Fire Department, assists residents Arlene Marshack, right, as other firefighters help her husband, Martin, and homeowner Wendy Kritt along Lincolnshire Drive after flooding overwhelmed the neighborhood in Lincolnshire.
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Lake County Forest Preserve District biologists, in cooperation with Lincoln Park Zoo, released rare and elusive meadow jumping mice at the Rollins Savanna near Grayslake to help restore their population.
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Carmel players celebrate their Class 4A regional final volleyball win over Glenbrook South in Mundelein.
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A pedestrians navigates freshly-shoveled sidewalks in downtown Libertyville after a snowfall.
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Light fixtures and conduit hang from the ceiling of a former PNC Bank at Rollins Road and Route 83 in Round Lake Beach. The bank was demolished and stripped for recyclable materials as part of the ongoing improvements of the intersection.
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Libertyvilles Morgan OBrien (4) and Rhiannon Prentiss (16) celebrate a point on their way to defeating Zion-Benton in the first game of a volleyball match in Libertyville.
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Mike Ullrich of Lake in the Hills and his fellow Sears employees teamed up with Warner Brothers on a theatrical integration to set a new world record and celebrate the opening of Man of Steel movie in Hoffman Estates.
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Juan Corona carries his granddaughter, Delanee Hernandez, 9, on his back from her flooded house in Wheeling after storms dumped over five inches of water on the matter of hours.
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Antiochs Danny Brito, from left, Krystian Streit, Danny Lonski and Iven Hernandez react after losing to St. Ignatius 1-0 during the Class 2A supersectional soccer match at Stevenson High School.
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Bullrider Rod McKoewn is thrown from a bull during the Professional Championship Bullriders World Tour Finale V at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates last February.
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Barringtons Catherine Byron shoots while sandwiched between Herseys Jill Hoffman, foreground, and Katie Lindholm in Barrington.
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Warrens Megan Sowa slides under the tag of Grayslake North catcher Kaitlyn Olsen during the Class 4A regional semifinal softball game in Gurnee.
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A possible lightning strike at this house on Terra Vita Drive in Barrington forced the family out of the house. Fire departments from the Northwest suburbs were called in for the fire.
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Robert Blaine with Chicago R&B Kings plays during an outdoor summer concert at Independence Grove Forest Preserve near Libertyville.
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Batavias Nick Bernabei is unable to stop this one-handed pass play with Rolling Meadows Matt Campbell running for a touchdown during the Class 6A football playoffs in Rolling Meadows.
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Gurnee resident John Howe salutes during the playing of the National Anthem during Gurnees Memorial Day ceremony.
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Sabrina ODowd, from left, Kaila Husk, Angelica Torres, and Shiloh Lampkin with Round Lake High School chorus group Mental Notes use their smart phones to light their music books as they sing Christmas songs at the Village of Round Lake Beach annual tree lighting.
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Rebecca Cavanaugh rides in a canoe pushed by her aunt, Tina Dace, of Evanston and her sister, Robin, as they depart from the Cavanaughs grandparents home in during flooding in Des Plaines.
JOE LEWNARD/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Deer walk through the woods at the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary after a winter storm hit the area in Lake County.
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Ted Tworek, left, helps his daughter, Alison, and wife Donna, get to higher ground with the assistance of Antonio Tenner in the flooded Big Bend neighborhood in Des Plaines.
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Mike Burke of Vernon Hills enjoys unseasonably warm weather while sitting with his dogs at the Lake County Forest Preserves dog exercise area near Wauconda.
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Harold Bergman, 97, of Hoffman Estates sits in his backyard catching the cool air flowing up from the cellar on a hot summer day.
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Governor Pat Quinn gives Schaumburgs Erin Merryn a hug after signing Erins Law at Childrens Advocacy Center in Hoffman Estates in January. Erin advocated for the law in her name which mandates that schools statewide teach age-appropriate sexual assault and abuse awareness and prevention classes.
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Francis Cardinal George rides through the hallways, blessing the staff, patients and families of the new Alexian Brothers Women and Childrens Hospital in Hoffman Estates.
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Zachary De Pue with Time for Three, a classically-trained garage band, plays the violin at Tefft Middle School in Streamwood.
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The Chicago Blackhawks coaches bus moves along the parade route heading to Grant Park for the Stanley Cup victory celebration.
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Efrain Baez of Des Plaines crawls out the trunk of his Volkswagen after getting stuck in the flooded intersection of Rand and Wilson in Des Plaines.
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Warren Township High School senior outfielder Megan Sowa using a technique called painting with light in our Libertyville lighting studio for her Daily Heralds Lake County all-area softball team captain portrait.
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Pilot Brian Anderson gently positions himself inches above the 130-foot tower so that ComEd lineman Ron Kellett can get back in the helicopter after swapping out the old porcelain insulator string for new glass insulators.
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Vernon Hills police officer Sharon Joseph has her head shaved during the St. Baldricks charity event at Hawthorn Mall in Vernon Hills. Her hair, as well as that of her nine-year-old daughter Kaitlyn, was donated to Locks of Love.
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Caroline Provost, left, has lunch with friend Cece Gray at Kimball Hill School in Rolling Meadows.
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