10 stories you may have missed this weekend
1. Criminal cases against some former NIU students accused in the fraternity hazing death of freshman David Bogenberger of Palatine could conclude this week, but whatever the outcome, his father wants more done to combat hazing.
2. What started as a simple idea to spread a little joy around the holidays became something that lasted months and made believers out of dozens of suburbanites, columnist Burt Constable writes of the Believe Project in the Daily Herald.
3. Newly seated College of DuPage board member Frank Napolitano says closing the school's Waterleaf restaurant is one option that may be considered as he other trustees seek to reform the state's largest community college.
4. A 13-year-old Des Plaines boy is expected to recover after being shot in the face Friday night. in the meantime, counselors will be on hand at the boy's former school to help his onetime classmates cope.
5. About $1.4 million will be spent to air-condition two Grayslake schools - Woodview and Meadowview - for the next academic year, despite resistance from outgoing board members.
6. There's one clear highlight from the second downtown crime report since Naperville strengthened restrictions on late-night bar entry, shot sales, beer sizes drink specials and security training: No fights.
7. From everyday school frustrations, Prospect High School sophomore Jimmy McDermott created ProCast, a mobile app that manages high school theater productions for both students and staffers. His work was part of a new app-creating curriculum being tested this year in a handful Northwest suburban high schools.
8. Burnell Russell, 86, steps down Tuesday, ending 23 years in office as Volo's first village president. The village's population grew 20 fold during his tenure.
9. Two Hanover Park residents have been charged with drug-induced homicide in the heroin overdose death of a 32-year-old man on March 9, authorities announced Saturday.
10. Will they or won't they? Des Plaines aldermen are set to debate Monday whether to rebate as much as $875,000 in sales tax dollars to the developers behind a proposed Mariano's grocery store on the at the northeast corner of Mount Prospect and Golf roads.