Picture This offers a glimpse of your communities through the lens of Times photographers.
Volunteer workers roll a 5-foot-wide corrugated plastic pipe in place to improve flow volume at a culvert near the entrance of Catlin Park earlier this week. Over the years, the old 2-foot-wide metal culvert had rusted out and collapsed in places.
A group of children bounce their troubles away as they take their turns in a bounce house during the annual City Rec carnival at Rigden Park in Ottawa this past week.
A group of students in the Ottawa City Rec photo safari program taught by Annette Barr Photography photograph the Lincoln Douglas Debate historical marker at Washington Square in Ottawa.
Gov. Bruce Rauner shakes hands with voters and those too young to cast a ballot during an appearance in Ottawa last week.