10 stories you may have missed
1. Vince Maranto lived by the slogan "Once a Marine, always a Marine," and that's the way he wanted to leave this world. But it took some special help from suburban Marines to make Maranto's dying wish come true.
2. What's it like being a Gen. Robert E. Lee impersonator at a time when all things related to the Confederacy - and especially its battle flag - are under intense scrutiny? Burt Constable finds out when he talks with Wheaton resident Paul Wood.
3. Benjamin Lee Silver died by suicide July 2 at Ribfest in Naperville, but his family says his death is not what defined him, and certainly not how they will remember him.
4. The College of DuPage faculty union will drop various grievances against the school in return for pay raises for the head of the faculty union and four professors. COD Faculty Association President Glenn Hansen stands to receive a pay bump of nearly $17,000 as part of the deal.
5. Authorities over the weekend identified Louis Antonio Nonato-Valesquez of Carol Stream as the man who fatally stabbed a 41-year-old Aurora woman at an Arlington Heights motel on Thursday before killing himself. Police said Nonato-Valesquez was dating Cecilia Perez at some point before the murder-suicide.
6. Several workers were hospitalized Saturday after someone poured 2 to 5 gallons of sulfuric acid into a clogged drain at a Mundelein company, causing gas to fill the air.
7. Roger Stettner had all but lost hope he'd ever get back his beloved late wife's ashes, which he believes had been stolen during a break in of his home. Then came the surprise of his life when he found them on his lawn Friday morning.
8. Some in the Fox Lake business community are getting indigestion over a new village tax aimed at out-of-towners who eat at local restaurants.
9. Police say charges might be coming in connection with a crash in Lake Zurich that left one person hospitalized over the weekend.
10. An Aurora police officer fired on, but did not hit, two suspects who authorities say pointed handguns at officers Saturday night. Both suspects were in custody by the end of the night.