Look: The Week in Pictures photo gallery for November 13-19, 2023 in the Chicago suburbs

 
Mayor Jim Schwantz gets some help with the Holiday Tree Lighting from a group of children Saturday, November 18, 2023 at Towne Square Park in Palatine.

Brian Hill | Staff Photographer

 
Amanda E. Gross, who grew up in Mundelein, painted the mural at the Lions Park skate park in Mundelein.

Joe Lewnard | Staff Photographer

 
World War II Veteran Duane Stevenson, who turned 100 on Veterans Day, is recognized during the Veterans Day ceremony Saturday, November 11, 2023 at Fire Station in St. Charles.

Brian Hill | Staff Photographer

 
Students test water from Butler Lake while working on a lab assignment in the class of Libertyville High School Environmental Science teacher Jennifer Kahn, right.

Joe Lewnard | Staff Photographer

 
Lake County has allocated more than $26 million to rebuild 1.9 miles of Arlington Heights Road from Lake Cook Road to a point near Route 83. Arlington Heights Road in oriented side-to-side in this view, and Lake Cook Road is oriented top to bottom.

Joe Lewnard | Staff Photographer

 
Keith McClow, heritage experience manager talks about the rooftop sunroom with windows that slide most of the way open at Mayslake Hall in Oak Brook.

John Starks | Staff Photographer

 
Volunteer Mohammed Khalib grabs a halal turkey for a client Saturday, November 18, 2023 at ICNA Relief Food Pantry in Glendale Heights. Zakat Chicago distributed 60 Halal turkeys to people in need.

Brian Hill | Staff Photographer

 
A secret, hidden door to a spiral stairway is evident only by the seams in the baseboard behind Keith McClow on the second floor of the newly restored Mayslake Hall in Oak Brook.

John Starks | Staff Photographer

 
The new Advocate Outpatient Center & Pharmacy is taking shape just west of the Lakemoor Woodman’s grocery story on Route 120.

Paul Valade | Staff Photographer

 
Smoke rises high into the sky as flames burn the prairie grass during a prescribed burn at Peck Farm in Geneva on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. The burn helps to simulate what naturally happens to the prairie and also helps to eliminate invasive nonnative plants.

Jeff Knox | Staff Photographer

 
Artist Cecil McDonald, Jr. of Chicago talks about “I Wonder As I Wander” during an artist celebration event for the collection of original public art in O’Hare International Airport’s Terminal 5 Thursday.

Joe Lewnard | Staff Photographer

 
Westview Elementary School principal Al Buttimer, facing, hugs Sam Ally during a school assembly Friday. Ally surprised Buttimer with a visit and shared with students how their principal saved his life by doing CPR on him after he collapsed and went in to cardiac arrest on a basketball court in July.

Rick West | Staff Photographer

 
Jason Bierman, a City of Elgin employee, mows the grass and mulches the fallen leaves Thursday, November 16, 2023 at Lords Park in Elgin. Temperatures reached into the low 60s and are predicted to drop steadily through next week.

Brian Hill | Staff Photographer

 
Morton Arboretum’s Illumination holiday display in Lisle features 18 displays on a milelong paved walking trail. “Treemagination” is moving designs projected on pine trees.

John Starks | Staff Photographer

 
Morton Arboretum’s Illumination holiday display in Lisle features 18 displays on a milelong paved walking trail.

John Starks | Staff Photographer

 
A single maple tree shows off its peak fall colors along Barberry Lane near Norge Parkway in Fox River Grove. Some trees hit peak mid-October while many tree did not change until weeks later.

Paul Valade | Staff Photographer

 
The Palatine Children’s Chorus performs during the Holiday Tree Lighting Saturday, November 18, 2023 at Towne Square Park in Palatine.

Brian Hill | Staff Photographer

 
Student Malik Foster unboxes donated clothing items for the District 214 Education Foundation’s 214 Cares Program at Forest View Educational Center in Arlington Heights Friday.

Joe Lewnard | Staff Photographer

 
Nine-year-old Everly Hansign, of Batavia holds a Peace for Palestine sing during a Fox Valley Solidarity Rally calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and peace, justice and solidarity with the Palestinian people Saturday, November 18, 2023 on the Wilson Street Bridge in Batavia.

Brian Hill | Staff Photographer

 
Christine Johnson, of Mundelein and her children, from left, Breea, 8, Colin, 3 and Emelia, 6, watch trains pass during an open house of the North Central O Gauge Model Railroad Club in Mundelein Saturday. The club, which had been located in the Fremont Public Library, is now located in the Mundelein Tool Library building downtown.

Joe Lewnard | Staff Photographer

 
Teacher Erin LoBue Major talks with senior Paul Danguilan, middle, and junior Paul Johnson in a capstone engineering class at Carmel Catholic High School in Mundelein Friday.

Joe Lewnard | Staff Photographer