Fast bees and slow turtles are part of The Week in Pictures
Bees, turtles, sunflowers and people trying to encourage togetherness in the pandemic were part of Daily Herald photographers targets last week in The Week in Pictures photo gallery.
Marcela Fierros, right, holds a photo of her son Elias Valdez, Sunday, August 30, 2020 at the Glenview Police Department, during a protest over the release to home confinement of the suspect in his killing.
Jeff Knox/jknox@dailyherald.com
A man wears a IATSE Labor Union T-shirt to represent theatrical stage employees as the Allstate Arena is lit with red lights Tuesday night to raise awareness of the COVID-19 devastation on the entertainment industry.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Frank C. Whiteley School physical education teacher Andrea Rodino holds a yoga virtual class with her students.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
Willie Pilipauskas, a 31-year-old professional beekeeper, looks over a tray of bees and honey at his family's home in Lake Villa. The village is trying to remove the bees. aPilipauskas says he's had the bees at the home for around 20 years and the neighbors have never complained.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
Willie Pilipauskas, right, and his father, Dave, check on the bee crates behind their Lake Villa home Friday morning. Village officials are trying to have the bees moved.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
Georgia Nelson, of Palatine paints her Peace Pole, a concept started by Courtney Murphy, 17, of Palatine. The poles hold messages of Peace that will be placed throughout the town of Palatine.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
Brandon Wunderle grinds down a piece for a furnace at Bantam Built, a tiny homebuilder, in Elgin Thursday. They have to custom make or adapt many parts to fit their scale of building.
Rick West/rwest@dailyherald.com
Val Dallesasse holds a bouquet of flowers as she talks with friends on her 75th wedding anniversary at her and husband Rudy's St. Charles home Wednesday.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Geoff Slagh, of Wildwood pics out a selection of sunflowers from the Geneva Lakes Produce stand at Wednesday's Grayslake Farmers Market along Center Street.
Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com
Sydney Plant, 12th grade, engages in an activity that was recently added to the blacktop surface at Cove School in Northbrook recently.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Clockwise from left, Vivian Hinojosa, eighth grade, Liam Keys, seventh grade, and Joseph Dadan, eighth grade, work with co-teachers Elenna Reyes and Brendan Jacobi outdoors at Cove School in Northbrook recently.
Joe Lewnard/jlewnard@dailyherald.com
Pastor Jay Moses, of Hope Presbyterian looks at recent vandalism at the church in Wheaton. A white Wheaton church's attempts to show solidarity with the African American community through Black Lives Matter signs have been met with repeated acts of vandalism that church officials view as hate crimes.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Dan Thompson, DuPage County Forest Preserve District Ecologist talks to the media about the endangered Blanding's turtles that were reared at Brookfield Zoo and released into the wild as part of Forest Preserve District of DuPage County's "Head-Start" Wednesday September 2, 2020 in a secluded wetland in DuPage County.
Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com
Pete and Kay Stenberg, from Crown Point, Indiana relax between races at Arlington Park Thursday.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Former Downers Grove resident Evan Baird, 22, uses jumping stilts to wow the crowd at the Harvester Place memory care center in Burr Ridge. Baird has been interested in gymnastics since the age of three and wanted to audition for the circus but COVID-19 interfered with his plans. His famous trick is to jump over a person like volunteer Carole Considine, executive director of Harvester Place in Burr Ridge.
Mark Welsh/mwelsh@dailyherald.com
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