Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Harvard's Christian Carrillo (left) Abgel Sanchez, Isaih Solis and Jerry Martinez watch as the last penalty kick is made during a shootout at Wednesday's Class 2A Grayslake Central Sectional Semifinal game against Grayslake North on October 24, 2012. Harvard won, 1-0.
Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com McHenry County crisis worker Holly (right) lights the candles of those, whose lives have been touched by suicide, gathered at the Woodstock Square for a remembrance program in response to the disturbing increase in suicides in the area.
Josh Peckler - Jpeckler@shawmedia.com Bonnie Sutton plays with Penelope as she jumps in the air outside Huntley Animal House Shelter in June. Pit Bulls are known to be aggressive dogs but Huntley Animal House Shelter is setting out to prove that they can be great family pets.
H. Rick Bamman - hbamman@shawmedia.com Boxer Rebound Boxer Rebound volunteer Sandy Jacobsen walks with Sammy at the Ringwood facilty. Boxer Rebound dog rescue will benifit from a $1,000 check from a group of art students at McHenry West High School. Friday. The students raised money for this nonprofit by drawing pet portraits.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Ozzy Osbourne performs with Black Sabbath during day one of Lollapalooza held at Grant Park in Chicago in August.
Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com Stacy Larzelere carries a turkey out of her ex-husband's burned home on Thanksgiving day. A fire broke out in the Crystal Lake home in the 700 block of Windsor Drive after a deep fryer ignited the garage.
H. Rick Bamman -hbamman@shawmedia.com Larry Galizi wades in Crystal Lake morning to recover submerged pieces of a pier that was blown apart by high winds.
H. Rick Bamman -hbamman@shawmedia.com Clouds take on an unique pattern as they move over Three Oaks Recreation area on a June morning in Crystal Lake.
Josh Peckler - Jpeckler@shawmedia.com Motorcycles go by during the Toys For Tots Christmas Parade in Mchenry. After the parade that included almost 800 motorcycle riders toys were collected to be donated to the U.S Marines Toys for Tots.
H. Rick Bamman - hbamman@shawmedia.com PFC Eric Luna of Carpentersville and 2010 Dundee-Crown graduate hugs his sister Ivette Luna after surprising her during english class at Dundee Crown high school.
H. Rick Bamman - hbamman@shawmedia.com ComEd linemen keep watch as the Ford School house rolls under a power line on Algonquin Road . The Lake in the Hills Historical Society moved the historic building from Algonquin back to Ford School Park, 302 Ramble Rd. in Lake in the Hills. Equipment to move the school was donated, along with excavation and tree services.
H. Rick Bamman - hbamman@shawmedia.com Sean Keller stays close to his mother Valerie Keller as she thanks the students and staff at Zion Lutheran School in Marengo. Sean has Luekemia and his brother Max's classmates showed their support by shaving their heads.
H. Rick Bamman - hbamman@shawmedia.com The Marengo bench erupts after Reed Karsten's inside the park home run against Burlington Central in the Belvidere 3A Softball sectional. Marengo won 3-0.
Josh Peckler - Jpeckler@shawmedia.com Wearing pink attire McHenry High School students from left (Josie Hobbs, Trevor Folz and Shane Varil cheer on McHenry as they enter the field to play against Dundee-Crown High School at Mchenry High Schoo. Mchenry High School held a Pink-Out Play For a Cure Week to bring awareness to cancer in women.
Josh Peckler - Jpeckler@shawmedia.com The driver and his car can barely be seen as it picks up dust during a car stunt show for the Iron Invasion Festival at the Mchenry County Fair Grounds in Woodstock.
Josh Peckler - Jpeckler@shawmedia.com Auctioneer Gordon Stade of Huntley leads the live auction portion of the Gavers Community Cancer Foundation Barndance at Emricson Park in Woodstock.
Josh Peckler - Jpeckler@shawmedia.com Marian Central's Mike Dougherty (17) jumps as he celebrates scoring a goal against Harvard during the first half of a IHSA Regional semifinal at Harvard High School.
Josh Peckler - Jpeckler@shawmedia.com Bobby Rosenthal of Mchenry holds his daughter Tru, 2 on his shoulders as bubbles fly by during The Lake in the Hills Summer Sunset Festival at Sunset Park.
Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com Family and friends snap a photo of Ambrocio and Amy Avitia sharing their first kiss as husband and wife at the McHenry Couty Court House on Wednesday, December 12, 2012. The couple has known each other for 17 years and had been dating for four months when they made the appointment this past Monday to wed on the last repetitive date of the century.
Josh Peckler - Jpeckler@shawmedia.com A roping contestant practices his roping skills before the start of the Tri-County Pro Rodeo at Milky Way Park in Harvard in July.
Josh Peckler - Jpeckler@shawmedia.com Crystal Lake South's Nicole Slimko celebrates defeating Prairie Ridge 2-1 at Crystal Lake South High School in October.
Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com Conor Dalton (left), 25, helps his brother, Kevin, and mother, Trish, hang a garland around the front door of their Cary home in November. Dalton moved back in with his parents and three siblings when he lost his job, got sick and when going to school in Utah got too expensive. He is currently going to school at McHenry County College along with two of his other siblings.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Concert goers dance in the mud after a rain storm flooded Grant Park during day two at Lollapalooza in Chicago.
H. Rick Bamman -hbamman@shawmedia.com Algonquin Firefighter Matt Berg adjusts the cables attached to the 5,460 - pound 14 ft. tall floor beam from Tower One of the World Trade Center before it is moved into place at Algonquin’s Riverfront Park.
Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com A giant American Flag was hung in the Marengo Community High School's gym for a Veterans Day commemoration on Monday, November 12, 2012.
H. Rick Bamman -hbamman@shawmedia.com Sun City of Huntley residents Bob Wold (left) and Chuck Czochara plant flags September 7, 2012 for the 9/11 American Flag Memorial.
Josh Peckler - Jpeckler@shawmedia.com Becky Kress of McHenry reacts to election results during a Republican rally party held at the McHenry County Republican headquarters in Crystal Lake.
Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com Navy Fire Controlman Vladimir Rivas steps of the bus at the McHenry VFW Post 4600. Rivas was one of about 150 sailors from the Great Lakes Naval Base at the Thanksgiving of Sailors hosted by the combined veterans organizations of McHenry.
Josh Peckler - Jpeckler@shawmedia.com From left, Drew Washow, 4 of Cary, Christopher Highfill, 5, Matt Ailes, 10 and Caulin Highfill, 10 all of Crystal Lake enjoy chocolate ice cream bars on a bench at Main Beach in Crystal Lake on a scorching day in July.
Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com Kindergartener Rian Fossum decorates an interior window of Paulee's Pizzeria with a Christmas tree design in Wonder Lake in November. Fossum is part of the Muse Art Club for K-5th grade at Harrison Elementary School.
H. Rick Bamman -hbamman@shawmedia.com Sandhill Cranes feed in a recently harvested field adjacent to Prairie Grove Elementary School on a July morning. The birds are naturally gray and their heads are topped with a crimson crown.
Josh Peckler - Jpeckler@shawmedia.com A firefighter with the Davey Resource Group is surrounded by smoke and flames during a prescribed burn at The Sanctuary of Bull Valley housing community in Woodstock.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Allison Cassan, 7, of Huntley plays with a styrofoam airplane while waiting for the Huntley Independence Day fireworks show to begin.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Sam Manaois (left), 7, of Algonquin and Logan Ratajczak, 8, of Algonquin play with a spooky spider halloween decoration while trick or treating around Algonquin.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Stay-at-home dad Nathan Thompson, 31, of Crystal Lake holds his four-week-old daughter, Claire, while at home with his wife and 19-month-old son. There were only about 81,000 stay-at-home dads in 2001, or about 1.6 percent of all stay-at-home parents. By last year, the number had climbed to 176,000, or 3.4 percent of stay-at-home parents, according to U.S. Census data.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Daniel Wendler, 10, of McHenry jumps off the giant tire structure while attending Praise on the Farm at Stade’s Farm and Market in McHenry.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Madison Kroening, 9, of Lake in the Hills runs a lap while participating in a Girls on the Run program at Glacier Ridge School in Crystal Lake. Girls on the Run is a 12 week program that helps inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident while creatively integrating running.
H. Rick Bamman - hbamman@shawmedia.com First responders exhamine the wreckage of a V-Tailed Beechcraft Bonanza at the scene of the single engine plane crash east of the Lake In The Hills airport. Crystal Lake Fire Department reported that two people died in the crash.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Aidan Wasilowski, 7, of McHenry fills his baskets with fresh picked strawberries at Stade's Farm in McHenry.
H. Rick Bamman - hbamman@shawmedia.com A horse is lead through a pasture in October at the scene of a barn fire at 21089 Ridge Road in Barrington Hills.
H. Rick Bamman - hbamman@shawmedia.com Tony Mok plays the Beatles' song "And I Love Her" for his mother Patricia Mok as they sit outside her home following a fire in Algonquin that left her home uninhabitable.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Ryan Olson, 16, of Crystal Lake laughs at his hair while getting his head shaved at Crystal Lake South High School. Participants shaved their heads to raise money for the St. Baldrick's Foundation.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Nathan Larsen, 7, of Algonquin jumps on the trampoline while playing in the sensory room at the Northern Illinois Center for Autism in Lake in the Hills.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Cadence Lampert, 5, of Lake in the Hills is startled when a duck sneaks up on her during an animal show at the Huntley Library. A duck, tortoise, snake, bearded dragon and hermit crabs
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Lauren Kisly, 22, of Lakemoor talks with her mom about the recent suicide of her brother, Eric, 23, while are their home. Eric struggled with Asperger's syndrome and committed suicide by jumping in front of a Metra train in June.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Joshua Szeszol, 15, of Huntley does a belly flop while jumping into the pool at the Stingray Bay Family Aquatic Center.
Sarah Nader - snader@shawmedia.com Florence and the Machine performs during day three of Lollapalooza in Chicago.
