Virtual Slide Sheet

 Injured Chicago Firefighter

Getting pumped

 This was fun

 

 An injured Chicago firefighter is taken away from an apartment building fire in Bridgeport.

My first Chicago Tribune tear sheet

Captain Jeff Lapka pumps up the team before the big game versus San Fernando Valley.

Rugby photo essay

 Chicago fire fighters had a difficult problem battling the fire on Grand & Western Ave., where a recycling shop which houses magnesium (an ingredient commonly found in fireworks) caught fire.  Bishop Imesh makes his way down the main asile to start midnight mass Christmas morning at St. Raymond's Cathedral in Joliet.

 Hale Bopp

 Base hit

 Joliet Catholic High we're for you! Get in that battle win that fight!...

The comet Halle Bopp, is seen as a faint glow above the western horizon, as it heads back towards the edge of our solar system.Part of the Lost Americana series  Hales Fransican forward Matthew Humphrey (14) lets out a yell as he goes for a layup against Brother Rice.  Joliet Catholic's backup QB Kevin O'Malley (12) joins the huddle at midfield to sing their school's victory song. After defeating the visiting East St. Louis Flyers.  St. Joe's shetland league team's head coach Mark Ksiazak gets 6 year old Andrew Kosak, of Crest Hill ready for summer baseball.

 in pain

 tickets

 shaken not stirred

 

 Leah Collins looks towards her coach in pain and dissapointment after she sprained her ankle in her first of four rythmic gymnastic routines. Paul Dreiling of Hoffman Estates basks in the January morning sun in front of Buddy Guy's Ledgends. Dreiling showed up at 9am for general addmission tickets for that nights sold out show.  Jenny B, the head bartender at the Holiday Club in Wicker Park, pours the most commonly ordered drink in the house, the Martini. Neighbourhood kids use an illegally opened fireplug to cool down on one of the hottest days in Chicago. Not only was it hot but most people lost electrity due to overloads.

 fireball

 kids

 painfull?

Morris Players celebrate after what was probably the most incredible game never seen, as they defeated Metamora in the 5A semi-finals, a game that resembled the Chicago Bears famed "Fog Bowl".  A members of the Redmoon Theater group preform some pyro-technics from a tree along Sawyer Ave. during the annual Logan Square's Halloween parade. Eric Jolee (left), 8 & Heath Berger 10, enjoy the first warm day of the spring with their friends, on the play sets at Prairie Middle school in Plainfield.  Dave Whalen has the pleasure of being the jumper on the lineout for the Chicago Blaze Rugby Club.
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