Rainbow Basketball, Dog Smells Flowers And Peekaboo Cat: 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 summer.

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Joy Gallivan, of Tinley Park, got a great shot of basketball being played under a rainbow.

Harold Aardsma photographed this Eastern Fox snake at Wolfe Wildlife Park in Oak Lawn.

Bridget Kwiatt sent us this photo she got of a beautiful buck Knollwood.

Colleen Thompson sent in this photograph she took right after a storm passed at Centennial Park in Tinley Park.

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Kimberly Vick, of Tinley Park, photographed her dog, Bert, stopping to smell the flowers in the backyard.

Randy Vyskocil, of Buffalo Grove, photographed these robins from his porch. "I think the birds have figured out their own solution to the housing crisis," Vyskocil told us.

Linda Trytek, of Deerfield, shot this colorful photograph of a "backyard beetle."

Kim Hess took this photograph during the early morning hours on Petite Lake in Antioch.

Ashley Rose, of Tinley Park, submitted this photograph she took of Theo, a recently turned 1-year-old and alumni of NAWS Humane Society of Illinois.