Daily Herald's Week in Photos
Natalie Strossner, 4, of Elgin and her father, Greg, play with beaver puppets Thursday at Brewster Creek Forest Preserve in St. Charles. Natalie was there for a program called Opossum Tales, part of an ongoing series called Little Acorns.
Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer
Elijah Menich takes aim at the teachers during a special assembly at Roselle Middle School Tuesday.
Scott Sanders | Staff Photographer
Junior docents play the traditional game of post office during an open house at the Durant House Museum and Pioneer Sholes School at LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve in St. Charles.
Mark Black | Staff Photographer
With powdered sugar coating her lips, paczki lover Donna Kowalik of Wheeling bites into a raspberry stuffed pastry celebrating Fat Tuesday as she waits for her dozen to go at Wheeling's Sugar Hills Bakery.
Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer
Nearly 400 senior citizen residents of Community High School District 128 were treated to dinner and a dress rehearsal performance of the Vernon Hills High School's winter musical Grease Wednesday afternoon.
Paul Valade | Staff Photographer
Vernon Hills High School senior Maggie Briggs chats Wednesday with guests during the free dinner for Community High School District 128 senior citizen residents. Briggs is a National Honor Society student.
Paul Valade | Staff Photographer
Connor Broshar of St. Charles snakes his way through a maze of blue and red pillars and fog at Lazer Maxx Monday in Elgin. Connor, who is 10, was there with friends to celebrate his friend Noah Linn's 10th birthday.
Christopher Hankins | Staff Photographer
Louise White School's Xander Heine cranes to see his team's score following the lightning round during the competition at the Batavia library Friday. He powered his team to 15 points in the round, while the next closest school had 2 points.
Rick West | Staff Photographer
Eighth grader Allison Walsh lets a whipped cream pie fly at one of her teachers during a special assembly at Roselle Middle School Tuesday. Jenny Patrick, an 8th-grade teacher at Roselle Middle School started a Hearts for Haiti fundraiser.
Scott Sanders | Staff Photographer
Left to right, students Sophia Rigopoulos, Vince Tagare, Emma McMullen and Elaina Grott model eco-friendly fashions at Prospect High School Friday.
Joe Lewnard | Staff Photographer
Dr. Marion Friebus-Flaman, principal of Dooley Elementary School in Schaumburg allowed herself to be colored blue as part of a challenge she had with the students to raise more than $4,000 to send to Haiti.
Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer
Fifth graders Ryan Hack and Steven Mueller jump rope at Isaac Fox Elementary School along with over 100 classmates to raise over six thousand dollars for the American Heart Association.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Gabe Boivin, 5, of Geneva appears to be napping, but he's actually portraying an opossum playing dead while coyotes circle the carpet looking for a meal during the Opossum Tales program.
Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer
Kyle Salee, 15, of Ingleside and Jake DeGrave, 15, of Lake Villa go ice fishing on Channel Lake Sunday at the Northern Illinois Conservation Club's 50th Chain O'Lakes Fishing Derby and Winter Festival.
Gilbert R. Boucher II | Staff Photographer
Grand Staff Jazz performs at The Steel Beam Theatre in St. Charles Sunday during the Give Love to Haiti benefit.
Mark Black | Staff Photographer
Julia Davis, 10, works on a Mardi Gras float she made for the parade as fourth-grade students celebrate Mardi Gras Tuesday at Woodland Intermediate School.
Gilbert R. Boucher II | Staff Photographer
Randy McReynolds works on his Penguins Kissing sculpture Sunday during Downers Grove's annual Ice Fest.
Tanit Jarusan | Staff Photographer
Katie Burke, 10, holds up a mask she made as fourth-grade students celebrate Mardi Gras Tuesday.
Gilbert R. Boucher II | Staff Photographer
Stella Mitsuno works on principal Dr. Marion Friebus-Flaman of Dooley Elementary School in Schaumburg with the rest of the blue crew transforming her from head to toe as part of payoff to her students who raised more than $4,000 to send to Haiti.
Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer
Helen and Arthur Polich, who have been married 59 years, laugh after Chaplain Lori Geschrey reversed their names during a renewal of vows ceremony Saturday.
Joe Lewnard | Staff Photographer
Cam Sloss of Grace McWayne School gives himself a subtle fist pump after correctly answering a question during the lightning round at the fourth-annual Fifth Grade Batavia Math Competition at the Batavia library Friday.
Rick West | Staff Photographer
Erica Poduch, left, and Amanda Franke, seventh graders at Isaac Fox Elementary School along with over 100 fourth and fifth graders jumped rope to raise over six thousand dollars for the American Heart Association on Friday at the school in Lake Zurich.
George LeClaire | Staff Photographer
Lauren Koutouzis, 8 of St. Charles shows off the dunce cap that children of the late 1800s and early 1900s would have worn for being bad at Pioneer Sholes school house Sunday at LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve in St. Charles.
Mark Black | Staff Photographer
Helen and Dudley Olsen share a kiss as senior couples renew their wedding vows during a ceremony at Bartlett's Victory Centre Saturday. The Olsens have been married for 63 years.
Joe Lewnard | Staff Photographer
Event organizer and native Haitian Pascale Trouillot performs Sunday at The Steel Beam Theatre in St. Charles during the Give Love to Haiti benefit. The money raised will be donated to the Haiti relief effort through www.care.org.
Mark Black | Staff Photographer
Amanda Walzer, 9, right, is crowned queen and Jacob Hernandez, 10, is king after finding babies while eating king cake as fourth-grade students celebrate Mardi Gras Tuesday at Woodland Intermediate School in Gurnee.
Gilbert R. Boucher II | Staff Photographer
Sam Samycia of Schaumburg plays a game of eight ball on one of the new pool tables in the billiards room for senior citizens at the Hoffman Estates Park District.
Mark Black | Staff Photographer
Sap drips out of a sugar maple tree at Ryerson Woods Forest Preserve in Riverwoods as staff members began the tapping process Thursday morning. Classes in maple syruping will be open to the public the first three weekends in March.
Steve Lundy | Staff Photographer
Eighth grade teacher Beth Guzik is all smiles after getting pasted with a whipped cream pie at a special assembly at Roselle Middle School Tuesday.
Scott Sanders | Staff Photographer
Javier Zambrano of Davey Tree Company takes down part of one of about 10 trees they removed Tuesday from along the street that runs through Wing Park in Elgin.
Rick West | Staff Photographer
Dot painter Rogest, aka Ron Stevens works with students at Larkin High School Thursday in Elgin. The paintings will be sold and the proceeds will go towards the stars program at the school.
Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
Claire Kozak models eco-friendly fashions during a show at Prospect High School Friday.
Joe Lewnard | Staff Photographer
Dot painter Rogest works with 18-year-old Oscar Torres at Larkin High School Thursday.
Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
Brendan Coller, 5, of Batavia tosses a fuzzy ball, representing a baby opossum into the pouch of a mother opossum in a game during a Little Acorns program Thursday at Brewster Creek Forest Preserve in St. Charles.
Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer
Bella St. Jon of Hoffman Estates plays a game of eight ball at the Hoffman Estates Park District.
Mark Black | Staff Photographer
Bill Wiaduch of Oswego sits on a bucket while ice fishing on Channel Lake Sunday at the Northern Illinois Conservation Club's 50th Chain O'Lakes Fishing Derby and Winter Festival.
Gilbert R. Boucher II | Staff Photographer
Lake County Forest Preserve Environmental Educator Jen Berlinghof shows instructors Katie Zaban and Jackie Gianos-Rideout how to tap a sugar maple tree at Ryerson Woods Forest Preserve in Riverwoods Thursday morning.
Steve Lundy | Staff Photographer
Gavin Ganong, 11, during the D.A.R.E. bowling event at Lakeside Lanes Monday in Mundelein.
Gilbert R. Boucher II | Staff Photographer
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