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10 stories you may have missed this weekend

1. The 22 dispensaries that can legally sell medical marijuana in Illinois need more customers to survive. Here's why more people aren't signing up.

2. This season will mark the 100th anniversary of when Wrigley Field announcer Pat Pieper used a megaphone to first announce the Cubs lineup. Pieper died in 1974, but West Chicago fan Rich Bysina leads a campaign to honor the legend.

3. With a sharp divide among the College of DuPage's six trustees, it's hard to imagine who would want to replace former Chairwoman Kathy Hamilton, but documents obtained by the Daily Herald show roughly two dozen people have applied.

4. Tim Eilrich's son, Russell, died from a heroin overdose after being abandoned in a car. Now, his dad is on a mission to educate kids and parents about helping people who are overdosing.

5. Suburban school districts are being forced to fork out funding to administer a college-entrance exam this spring with the state's budget impasse.

6. Allstate Arena was a sea of green and brown uniforms that came in at 2,800 strong Saturday afternoon as the Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana held their seventh annual cookie kickoff.

7. Renaming DuPage AME's youth diversity institute after Sandra Bland is a fitting tribute to someone who "grew up" in the Lisle church, organizers say.

8. Hoffman Estates officials today will consider a special-use permit for a 24-hour Anytime Fitness health club.

9. Nine years after balking at the cost of replacing a bridge at McDowell Grove, DuPage County Forest Preserve commissioners are revisiting the idea.

10. And finally ... another weekend, another Hollywood awards show. Check out our photo gallery from the Critics Choice Awards.

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