10 stories you may have missed this weekend
1. Raising teenagers can be difficult for any parent, but suburban Muslims with children in that age group face an additional challenge: the threat of Muslim youths being recruited by extremist groups or being influenced by their propaganda.
2. Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez reached out to the suburban Sikh community on Sunday to address hate crimes and pledge her help in combating religious intolerance.
3. An epic combination of Mother Nature and engineering prowess was on display Saturday when the Elmhurst Quarry was opened for tours. The quarry serves as DuPage County's first line of defense against massive flooding when too much rain dumps on the region.
4. Growing up in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek, Ashley Luke is Wisconsin through and through. But the suburbs played a key role in making the Western Illinois University basketball star a Capital One Academic All-American.
5. The future of Mount Prospect's downtown and the village's finances were among the topics candidates for seats on the village board debated Saturday morning.
6. When Cathy Maloney started Foster 2 Home in 2010, she hoped to get dogs out of shelters and into the care of loving foster families before finding their forever homes. Five years later, the organization is close to adopting out its 1,000th dog.
7. Eleven Elgin Community College students will help Habitat for Humanity of Northern Fox Valley remodel a historic Elgin home for an immigrant couple from Uganda.
8. Citing concerns about aging equipment and adequate manpower at fire stations in unincorporated areas, Fox Lake Fire Protection District officials are going to voters next month with a tax increase proposal.
9. Juan Rivera - the subject of one of Illinois' most notorious wrongful conviction cases - stands to receive $20 million from a newly settled lawsuit against the law-enforcement agencies that sent him to prison.
10. A 42-year-old woman was stabbed to death by a 44-year-old man while visiting a patient Sunday morning at Alexian Brothers Medica Center in Elk Grove Village, according to police.
BONUS: We spent an hour in Pingree Grove - check out what we saw. (Don't forget to show us your images of the suburbs with the tag #shareyoursuburb.)