Brad Hofbauer’s autumnal photo of two people wandering around the remains of an old, abandoned coke plant on Chicago\u2019s southeast side wins first place in the Daily Herald\u2019s amateur photo contest for June. The Wheeling resident writes, \u201cIt is an interesting part of Chicago history and the sunsets here are magnificent.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n FIRST PLACE: Brad Hofbauer\u2019s cellphone photo of the smokestacks and tower of the old Acme Steel Company\u2019s coke plant, located in South Deering on Chicago\u2019s southeast side. The plant was shut down in 2001.
\n Brad Hofbauer of Wheeling\n <\/p>\n
In second place is Mike Nielsen\u2019s touching photo of two fawns competing to get some nourishment from mom. The Lisle resident writes, \u201cI felt blessed to see this fawn nursing on its mother \u2026 Just wonderful!\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n SECOND PLACE: A doe nurses two fawns along a path at Fullersburg Woods Forest Preserve in Oak Brook.
\n Mike Nielsen of Lisle\n <\/p>\n
Third place goes to Jerry Peterson\u2019s photo capturing a young girl striving to get a view of a total solar eclipse at a site near Carbondale. The Mount Prospect resident likes how the \u201cGirls Rule the Galaxy\u201d T-shirt speaks to the event.<\/p>\n
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\n THIRD PLACE: A young girl, wearing a \u201cGirls Rule the Galaxy\u201d T-shirt, tries to catch a glimpse of the solar eclipse during a gathering in Carbondale.
\n Jerry Peterson of \u00a0Mount Prospect\n <\/p>\n
Coming in fourth is Marilyn McNichols\u2019 photo of a young deer spotted during a visit to The Grove, a 150-acre outdoor history and nature museum in Glenview. The Algonquin resident writes, \u201cI love the natural, peaceful beauty of this photo.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n FOURTH PLACE: A young white-tailed deer takes a cooling dip in the water at The Grove in Glenview.
\n Marilyn McNichols of Algonquin\n <\/p>\n
An honorable mention goes to Matthew Davis for this photo of a fierce, but slightly comical-looking eagle standing over its kill. The Elgin resident writes, \u201cAlthough sightings are more common these days, seeing one will always make me pull over to admire.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n HONORABLE MENTION: An eagle standing vigil at its kill in a field in Elgin.
\n Matthew Davis of Elgin\n <\/p>\n
Contest rules<\/strong><\/p>\n The Daily Herald invites readers to submit their own photos to our \u201cYour Images\u201d amateur photo contest.<\/p>\n Once a month, we showcase entries that feature one first-place winner and three runners-up. The contest is open to everyone in the Daily Herald readership area.<\/p>\n \u2022 To submit a photo of your own for consideration, email it in .jpg format at highest quality possible to yourimages@dailyherald.com. Please remove any date stamps on the photo.<\/p>\n \u2022 Include your name, mailing address and phone number, plus a detailed description of your photo. Remember to include a sentence or two on what you like about it.<\/p>\n \u2022 One photo a week per photographer, but enter as many weeks as you\u2019d like.<\/p>\n \u2022 First-place winners will receive prizes alternating between The Great Frame Up in Schaumburg<\/a> and PJ\u2019s Camera in Glen Ellyn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Hofbauer’s autumnal photo of two people wandering around the remains of an old, abandoned coke plant on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[32891,960,1109,171,5386,1818,1165,32890,14698,5548,14718],"class_list":{"0":"post-41699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-algonquin","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-communities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-lifestyle","15":"tag-lisle","16":"tag-mount-prospect","17":"tag-visual-arts","18":"tag-wheeling"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114802718856953442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}