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10 stories you may have missed this weekend

1. How Fox Lake Police Lt. Charles "Joe" Gliniewicz elaborately built a convincing scene to make his suicide look like homicide, and how over weeks of effort and through 50,000 pages of investigative findings, officers arrived at the truth.

2. The DuPage County Sheriff's office is investigating the murder of a 27-year-old man just outside West Chicago. Police received a call of a person lying on the side of the road at about 11 p.m. Friday.

3. More than four years after Emma Mebane died in her sleep, the Kane County coroner's office ruled the cause of her death was undetermined, changing his predecessor's ruling in the case and criticizing the decision not to do an autopsy.

4. Contrary to popular belief, 2015's holiday season offers more movies than "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." Dann Gire gives a rundown on what else is worth checking out in theaters in the weeks ahead.

5. Eileen Quinn, a longtime Hinsdale resident and the mother of former Gov. Pat Quinn, died early Saturday at the age of 98.

6. St. Charles resident John Mars, who markets the California-based Mutual UFO Network, answers INfrequently Asked Questions about his oddball job. "There is other life out there," he says.

7. An Elgin man and woman has been charged with home invasion and aggravated kidnapping following a home invasion Wednesday in which a child was taken, police said.

8. Palatine-Schaumburg Township High School District 211 already has spent more than $80,000 in legal fees in a fight over a transgender student's access to locker rooms, and that could be just the beginning.

9. Schmacon is a beef product that looks and cooks up much like bacon - only better, says its inventor, Howard Bender of Schmaltz Deli in Naperville.

10. An Aurora man is headed to prison for the seventh time after being sentenced to 26 years behind bars for a violent home invasion last year.

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