15 Images That Wowed The Chicago Area in June

The fifteen photos/video clips above represent a variety of some of the most unique, most beautiful, most fascinating and all-around coolest imagery posted in the Chicago-area Patch sites in the month of June.

If you want to read more about any of them, check out the stories that accompanied them:

• Soap Box Derby Loads Of All-American Fun At Swedish Day
• Tree Hit By Lightning in Sunday Storm
  
• Couldn't See REO at Taste? Here's the Next Best Thing
• WATCH: Fun at the 'Dirty Girl Mud Run'
  
• Fans Pack Naperville Book Store for Weird Al Visit
  
• La Grange Pet Parade Delivers 'Miles of Smiles' (PHOTOS)
  
• Relay of Life Celebrates Life, Remembers Those Lost
• ETHS Senior Tiaira Scott Pins Boys, Wins Wrestling Championships
• Chicago Pride Parade Marches Through North Side (PHOTOS)
  
• Stanley Cup in Elmhurst Saturday and Oak Brook Friday!
  
• Watch Unsafe Morgan Park House Get Knocked Down
• Sea of Red: Chicago Blackhawks Rally's Record-Breaking Turnout (PHOTOS)
• Photographer Snaps Amazing Double Rainbow Over Wicker Park (PHOTO)
• Tree Lands on Orland Park House During Storm
• It's Electric (Lightning Storm Over the Fox River)