10 stories you might have missed this weekend
1. The world's biggest arcade game. The fastest lacrosse shot. Most whoopee cushions sat on in 30 seconds. You'll not only find these feats in the 60th anniversary edition of the "Guinness Book of World Records," you'll find them in the suburbs.
2. After a career immersed in blood, gore and death as Lake County coroner, 87-year-old Barbara E. Richardson has a pretty healthy outlook on life, but says this Halloween she still can't have fun with death, columnist Burt Constable writes.
3. A Chicago Bulls-affiliated NBA Development League team might be making Hoffman Estates' Sears Centre Arena its home court for its inaugural season about a year from now.
4. The response has been overwhelming for a deaf Hampshire High School student who wants to hear again, with donations pouring in for a hearing device for Maria Niño, 15, since a story about her plight ran in the Daily Herald.
5. The owner of Ron John Poo-B-Gone (motto: "I am #1 for your pet's #2") says he's the solution to your pet's pollution, with no time to waste, only time FOR waste, in this week's INfrequently Asked Questions column.
6. Less than two years after acquiring rights to them, Joe Caputo & Sons has closed two of its stores in former Dominick's location. It's still planning to open a store in another former Dominick's, this one in Elk Grove Village.
7. For the second time in as many weeks, an Arlington Heights tanning salon has been robbed by an armed man. A man wielding a knife took about $100 from Palm Beach Tan on Saturday night, according to police.
8. Elgin police are investigating a shooting that left a 48-year-old man wounded Saturday afternoon, authorities said. He's expected to survive.
9. China's abandonment of its 36-year-old one-child policy might create opportunities for U.S. businesses serving youth, but it won't have much impact on the number of children available for adoption, which already had declined for other reasons.
10. Mount Prospect trustees fear they may face another round of painful service and staff cuts as a result of the budget impasse in Springfield, possible cuts to revenues shared with the state, as well as a possible freeze on property taxes.