Anna Martusciello (center) of Darien raises her hands in worship during the La Grange Ministerium's Good Friday Service at the La Grange Christian Assembly on April 22, 2011. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

Brothers Andy Nelson (left) of Park Ridge and Lars Nelson of Willow Springs made wooden rockers in a Chicago woodshop for the "La Grange Rocks" outdoor art festival. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

8/4/11 La Grange,IL Tommy Levanto, right, celebrates after knocking down the opposing teams paper cup castle with a ping-pong ball during a summer school class at Cossitt Elementary School in La Grange on Aug. 3, 2011. | Rob Hart~Sun-Times Media

7/6/11 Brookfield,IL LaGrange Park's Adian Bresnahan makes a toss to second after diving for a grounder against LaGrange in little league baseball in Brookfield on July 6, 2011. | Rob Hart~Staff Photographer

WWII Veteran Howard "Stape" Stapleton, 88, of Elmhurst, a 1941 graduate of Lyons Township High School in La Grange, sits with his wife LaVerna and his son-in-law Dan Duquette of Western Springs before students at the school interviewed Howard about his WWII experience on Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Howard enlisted in the Army just before Pearl Harbor in 1941 and served in the South Pacific as an Army staff sergeant. He will be one of 96 WWII veterans going on an Honor Flight to visit memorials in Washington, D.C., on May 11, with help from $50,000 that students raised. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

6/10/11 Joliet,IL Lyons Township's Spencer Mahoney (24) and Jack Peth (34) celebrate after beating Mt. Carmel in the IHSA 4A semi-final game at Silver Cross Field in Joliet on June 10, 2011. The Lions won 4-1 and advance to the finals on Saturday. | Rob Hart~Sun-Times Media

Anthony Young, 7, and sister Gianna Young, 5, of Tinely Park look at the goose nesting in a planter on a deck behind the Flagg Creek Golf Course office in Countryside with their aunt Lisa Giancarlo of Tinely Park. The goose has been sitting on her eggs for the past three weeks except for brief trips to the pond. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media