Cat Turns On The Tunes, Holiday Dogs And A Sun-Chaser: IL In Photos

ILLINOIS — Take a look through this set of images from across Illinois. We're seeing many great opportunities for readers to get some memorable photographs throughout the state this fall.

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Tamara Rinaldi sent in this photo she took of her dog, Buddy Miller, outside the Grayslake Library.

Janice Grams, of Joliet, took this photograph of a Cooper's hawk, who she said was blended in with the leaves and that she almost walked into him. "He had a squirrel, but can’t see it from this angle," Grams told us. "I was so startled by his size and wing span, I just took this one photo on the ground."

Lynn Wesley, of Tinley Park, took this photo at Garden of the Gods in Herod.

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Geoffrey Charlton-Perrin sent us this photo of his granddaughters, Faedra and Avalon, with their pets, Grizzly and Cody, at a holiday party.

Mike Sebastian photographed a sunset at Eldridge Park in Elmhurst, taken near Butterfield and SprimgSean Gustas submitted this photo he said, "for those who love deer," of a buck during the first snowfall of the season at Oldfield Oaks in Darien

Janel Klingbiel got this great photo of a shelf cloud in Oswego.

Steven Collins captured this photograph of his wife, Trudy, sun-chasing at Maple Grove Forest Preserve in Downers Grove.