Train Passing By, Acts Of Kindness And Unexpected Guests: 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 spring.

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Lynn Wesley captured this amazing moment with a deer in Tinley Park.

Ann-Marie Aiello sent us this photograph of a rainbow, "minus the leprechaun," in Wilmington.

Debbie Garcia, of Bolingbrook, photographed her granddaughter, Lyra, 5, who spent the first day of spring break taking bags of Girl Scouts cookies, and painted appreciation rocks, to a few fire stations around Bolingbrook. "She is a Bolingbrook Daisy Scout, but collected cookies and did this act of kindness and appreciation on her own," Garcia tells us. "The firefighters were great with her, and we hope they enjoy their treats."

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Gloria Lopez tells us "spring is here" with this photograph taken at a grocery store in Schaumburg.

Budd Bieber tells us demolition of the Pillars house, one of the oldest in Oswego, has begun. He sent in this drone photograph he took of the work being done.

Sue Leston submitted this photo her husband took of some "unexpected guests." The wild turkeys were crossing the Kings Bridge subdivision entrance in Plainfield. "Their coloring is beautiful," Sue tells us.