10 stories you may have missed
1. Suburban volunteers flocked to Rochelle and other small northern Illinois communities over the weekend to help in the cleanup and recovery after deadly tornadoes swept through the area Thursday night. “It's so close to home; why wouldn't I drive the hour-and-a-half to come and help?” said Hoffman Estates resident Lisa Creamer.
2. Nick Davey of North Aurora came upon Thursday's tornado near Rochelle by happenstance. Brad Hruza of Elburn headed toward it on purpose. Both came away with stunning images and unforgettable memories of the power of the storm.
3. Demanding “Justice for Justus,” hundreds marched through Zion on Saturday to protest the fatal police-involved shooting of a Waukegan teenager by a police officer last week. Justus Howell, 17, was shot twice in the back after he tried to steal a handgun from another teen and then ran from police, authorities have said.
4. Friends and former teachers at Rolling Meadows High School are mourning the death of Mikal Johnson, a 2008 graduate who was shot to death Wednesday in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago for reasons that still aren't clear.
5. As a child, Crystal Lake native Christopher Oakley created a Super 8 stop-action film depicting Abraham Lincoln's assassination with his G.I. Joe as the president and a Lone Ranger doll as John Wilkes Booth. His obsession with our 16th president in the years since led to a 2013 discovery that Smithsonian Magazine hailed as “the most provocative, Abraham Lincoln photo find of the last 60 years.”.
6. A Round Lake man who authorities say abandoned his 3-year-old daughter in a trash can at a Prospect Heights area forest preserve is expected back in Illinois soon after he agreed to waive extradition from Michigan, where he was arrested last week.
7. A man shot and killed by a Rosemont police officer — who also happened to be his brother-in-law — had threatened the officer and other village officials before the fatal shooting, according to an Illinois State Police report.
8. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who was in Wheeling Sunday said that Sen. Mark Kirk's re-election was a top priority for Republicans across the nation.
9. Bringing a gun to school obviously is a terrible idea with potentially serious consequences. Lying about bringing a gun to school isn't much better, as one Elgin High School student found out Friday.
10. The 12-year-old from Hawthorn Woods who had one of the two best entries in ESPN's college basketball bracket challenge but couldn't win a $20,000 prize because he was too young to enter ended up receiving that much money anyway from a different source.