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10 stories you may have missed

1. Harper College President Ken Ender calls it a "high-stakes kind of deal." The Palatine college will announce a new initiative today offering high school students two years of free tuition if they make decent grades, volunteer in their communities and avoid skipping class until they graduate.

2. Suburban school districts would be among the biggest winners - and losers - under new legislation aimed at changing the way the state distributes funding. Elgin Area School District U-46 would gain $36.3 million, while Schaumburg Township Elementary District 54 would lose $12.3 million.

3. Earlier this month, Lucca Teuscher, 8, had a near deadly anaphylaxictic reaction, a result of her severe peanut allergy, and now her parents would like to see her Arlington Heights school district ban all nut products.

4. Celebrating holidays like Halloween and Easter can be tough if you're a kid who could face a serious, even deadly, reaction to treats typically given out to trick-or-treaters and egg hunters. That's why Nutphree's Bakery in Mount Prospect held a special egg hunt this weekend for kids with food allergies.

5. A government watchdog group says the College of DuPage paid a sign designer hundreds of thousands of dollars as part of two no-bid contracts that refer to her repeatedly as an architect - even though she isn't one.

6. Cardinal Francis George has been hospitalized again for treatment of "hydration issues and pain management," an Archdiocese of Chicago spokeswoman said Saturday.

7. Aurora police said Saturday they need help finding a man wanted for attempted murder after a shooting critically injured another man over the weekend.

8. Do you know on which large sea the city of Sochi is located? Or where the headquarters of the Nez Perce National Historical Park sits? Alexandru Grindeanu, an eighth-grader from Willowbrook, does, and that knowledge has earned him a trip to the 27th annual National Geographic Bee championship this May in Washington, D.C.

9. Basketball players whose off-court issues keep them out of the academic - and athletic - mainstream got their own taste of March Madness this weekend.

10. Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 school board candidates all see a need for better communication and increased trust in the district.

BONUS: The stars turned out for the iHeartRadio Music Awards.

Images: Our best photos you may have missed this weekend

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