Images: Find out what it's like to meet your pen pal in person in The Week in Pictures
Find out what it's like to meet your pen pal in person in The Week in Pictures
Sophomore Ashley Szull hugs her pen pal Haruna Ishikawa, as Elk Grove High School welcomes fourteen visitors from it's Japanese sister schools as part of the 28th annual Japanese Exchange Program.
Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
Merrill Millman, of Crystal Lake touches noses with Lucy, a golden doodle at Lakewood dog exercise area in Wauconda Friday.
Steve Lundy/slundy@dailyherald.com
Pictures are everywhere I look, at least most of the time. High school sports is a lot of fun to shoot, and not only for the great action, but also the emotion and hard work that these athletes put in. Winter brings a lot of basketball and with that a lot of court time. Each school starts their games out a bit differently and this time at Burlington, the kids were lit by a spot light as they took the court against Johnsburg. This unusual lighting gave me a nice image that I hope you enjoy. This picture was published in the Perspective column in the print edition of the Daily Herald.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Israel Alberto, of Mount Prospect finishes his 7.5 mile morning run in Busse Woods despite the snow.
Bob Chwedyk/bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
Teddy Labuhn of Batavia, 5, giggles as he bounces off the belly of his father, Mike, as Teddy tries out Knockerball at Chicago Family Palooza at Pheasant Run Mega Center in St. Charles Saturday. It was the second time the family has attended the event.
Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com
Jack Slania plays trumpet for the Hersey Jazz Combo ll, playing Afro Blue by Mongo Santamaria, during the 31st annual Jazz in the Meadows at Rolling Meadows High School.
Bob Chwedyk, bchwedyk@dailyherald.com
Audience members where kept wondering Sunday as magician Jeanette Andrews performed at the Batavia Public Library.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Zoe Howe, 12, of Lemont pretends to ride a T-Rex as she talks to people about T-Rexplorers Dinosaur Discovery Programs during the 2016 Chicagoland Kids Expo at Schaumburg Convention Center. The event featured petting zoo, costume shops, playland and rides.
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
Judy Schaller, left, and Kathy Fritz, right, both of Naperville, wait in line for a craft beer during the third annual Naperville Winter Ale Fest at Frontier Park.
Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com
Sandra Bland's sister and mother, Shavon Bland, left, and Geneva Reed-Veal, watch a video presentation about Sandra during the Elgin Community College "Real Talk" event Monday.
Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
Jerry Helinski pushes shopping carts in the snow at Walmart in Lake Zurich on Tuesday.
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
A pair of pedestrians cross Route 31 in Elgin as snow starts to fall in earnest around the Fox Valley Tuesday.
Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
Daniel Wright Junior High School seventh grader Lukas Garcia participates in the Guitar Anyone? session at the Explore the Arts day in Lincolnshire.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
Lina Smilgiene, of Orland Park clutches Lukas, the last of her three triplets to go home from Edward Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit in Naperville. Lukas was the largest of triplets born Aug. 27 at 15 weeks premature, but needed a longer hospital stay than his brother, Simas, and sister, Liktorija.
Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com
Paige Sampson and her daughter, Frances, look at her work from Butterfield School during the fifth annual ArtEffects student art show Wednesday evening at Cook Park Library in Libertyville. Libertyville School District 70 student artwork was on display from Rockland, Butterfield, Adler Park, Copeland Manor and Highland Middle Schools.
Gilbert R. Boucher II/gboucher@dailyherald.com
A baby great horned owl rests in a tree Wednesday in the Fabyan Forest Preserve in Geneva.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Mariano Mercado, of Elgin is the winner of Elgin's first "Greatest Loser" competition organized by the Centre of Elgin. He lost 22.8 pounds since the competition kicked off Jan. 2 and won a $1,000 gift-card to Elgin Fresh Market.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Don Beebe and his mother hold a golden football that was given to Kaneland High School in his honor as part of the 50th anniversary of the Super Bowl Thursday. He is a Kaneland High School graduate and six-time NFL Super Bowl player.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
A slight dusting of snow is cleared by a Lombard Park District employee along Grace Street at Lombard Lagoon Park.
Daniel White/dwhite@dailyherald.com
Dorothy Wilkening smiles after her husband of 75 years, Melvin, told her he loves her in their Elgin home. She is 92, he is 99.
Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.com
Christopher Sumner, 6, of Elgin looks over some of the cars at the kindergarten registration table Friday at New Life Covenant Church. The Elgin church had its annual pinewood derby contest with kids racing their cars with celebrity judges Elgin Police Chief Jeff Swoboda and Tom Hartwell, Kane County Circuit Court Clerk.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
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