Bears win, transgender student top weekend stories
1. Palatine High School's Lauren Logan earned a college scholarship as a softball player. Now named Ryan Logan, he is earning acclaim for his efforts as an advocate in transgender issues. Columnist Burt Constable tells his story.
2. Roller derby appears to be a rough and tumble sport, but as one player from Algonquin points out, at the heart of the sport is a sisterhood of women of all ages and backgrounds who support each other both on and off the track.
3. Police body cameras, measles and pumpkin pie are among the topics of hundreds of new laws that take effect in Illinois in 2016.
4. Lake County Sheriff's detectives have identified “more than one” person of interest in an early Christmas morning shooting near Lake Bluff that injured two men and a woman, authorities said.
5. The story of how intricate mosaic images created by a homeless Michigan man made its way to a temporary gallery in Libertyville may be as interesting as the artwork itself. Which is saying a lot, because the mosaics are fascinating.
6. Wheeling police are investigating the shooting of a 24-year-old man at about midnight Wednesday, Wheeling Police Chief Bill Benson said. Police have no one in custody and say the victim, who suffered a gunshot wound to his arm, is expected to survive.
7. It may not be the $60 million basilica envisioned, but leaders of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe are embarking on scaled-down plans to renovate an existing gymnasium and turn it into a worship space on their Des Plaines campus.
8. Chris Heffernan teaches world geography and moderates #worldgeochat on Twitter, but it wasn't until this summer's trip to Cambodia to help film educational documentaries that the teacher at Jefferson Junior High in Naperville saw himself as a true world traveler.
9. The Bears' defense forced 3 turnovers, the offense didn't commit any, and that was the difference in their 26-21 victory over the Bucs.
10. Lake County Sheriff's police are warning residents, particularly on the southern end of the county, to be on the lookout for people perpetrating ruse burglaries. “Being vigilant and reporting anything out of the ordinary is the first line of defense against these criminals,” Sheriff Mark Curran said.