10 stories you may have missed this weekend
1. Sarah Feltes of Sugar Grove was looking for a way to score free tickets to One Direction concerts when she signed up for Globalcitizen.org, but got so involved, she's won a free trip to a concert in New York and is being featured in a video.
2. "A sense of relief" is how Cardinal Francis George described his emotions as he introduced his successor, Bishop Blase Cupich, of Spokane, Washington, who will head the Archdiocese of Chicago come November. And suburban Catholic leaders weigh in on the choice.
3. It was five days since Hurricane Odile struck the resort town of Los Cabos, Mexico, and Hoffman Estates fire Lt. Tom Mangiameli's wedding party had enough. Here's how they finally made it back home.
4. A 23-year-old Naperville man found dead last month after he went missing in the wilderness near Mount Rushmore in South Dakota died as a result of hypothermia, a coroner there said Sunday.
5. Not too long ago, Elgin High School's theater program was all but dead. Then along came Jessica Vaillancourt, who's almost single-handedly raised the program from moribund to marvelous.
6. Marilyn Alice Tuckman of Elk Grove Village, who has written the"For the Love of Pumpkins" cookbook, tells columnist Burt Constable how she developed her obsession with the orange gourd.
7. A Palatine resident shot at a burglar in her condo Thursday and held him at gunpoint until police arrived, authorities said Friday.
8. There was plenty of skill and athleticism on display Saturday on the Wheeling High School football field. Only this students were carrying horns and drums, not pigskins.
9. An Iowa man was behind bars in the Lake County jail this weekend after his arrest in connection with a road rage attack that left another man seriously injured in far northwest suburban Volo.
10. About 20 youngsters had a tour of the Ivanhoe Club in Ivanhoe, hit the driving range and then played on the private course during First Tee, an event that rewards golfers for their smart decisions off the course.
BONUS: The Bears face a daunting task tonight trying to get their run game going against the New York Jets.