10 stories you may have missed this weekend
1. As they look forward to their 40th reunion, some Fremd High School grads are looking to make amends for the bullying of a classmate by creating a scholarship in his honor for those who survive and stand up to bullying.
2. Bypassing decades of tradition, Cardinal Francis George will be buried this week at All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines, next to his parents at his family's simple four-grave plot. Chicago archbishops historically are interred in the Bishops' Mausoleum at Mount Carmel Cemetery in West suburban Hillside.
3. Firefighters came with water tankers from far and wide Saturday to fight a blaze that destroyed a mansion in an area of Barrington Hills without fire hydrants. The cause of the fire remains under investigation, authorities said.
4. Nearly five years after Rusty, the mysterious wild dog of Oak Brook, turned himself in, was sent to a rehabilitation center in Utah and adopted by a volunteer there, his old friends threw him a party this weekend during a return visit.
5. Elgin police are awaiting autopsy results, and tracking down leads, in the fatal shooting early Saturday morning of a 20-year-old man. Police said the victim was found dead at Prairie Street and Grove Avenue, near Festival Park.
6. Clarissa Gomez, a 14-year-old eighth grader from St. James School in Arlington Heights, won the Knights of Columbus state spelling bee when she spelled oleander, the flowering shrub with bright, scented blooms.
7. Two Arlington Heights police officers have been found guilty of constitutional violations and ordered by a federal jury to pay a resident $80,000 in damages for illegally searching his home and seizing his guns.
8. Bartlett trustees on Tuesday are expected to decide whether to chop in half the village's controversial tax on electricity use, a rollback that could save the average household about $17 a month.
9. Hotels, restaurants, retail, parking garages and gas stations are among the possibilities for long-dormant land in Des Plaines near O'Hare International Airport.
10. A burglary suspect barricaded himself in a Wood Dale home Friday, but the situation was resolved peacefully, officials said.
BONUS: The ACMs turned 50 and honored Miranda Lambert and Luke Bryan.