10 stories you may have missed this weekend
1. A 52-year-old Carol Stream man who spent 28 years as a DuPage County sheriff's deputy was killed Saturday at his job as a baggage handler at Midway International Airport. 2. Chris Przybylo is one of the lucky ones. A heroin addict who thought his only future was death, he celebrated one year of sobriety over the weekend with his Arlington Heights family.
3. Sunshine Preschool in Wheaton, located in the basement of Wheaton Evangelical Free Church, is closing later this month after 44 years of serving an estimated 3,500 children.
4. PADS Lake County's effort to place chronically homeless people with mental illness in a residential neighborhood near Lake Zurich could be decided at a public hearing Tuesday. The proposal for the now-vacant Midlothian Manor building will go before the Lake County zoning board of appeals at 4:30 p.m. at Lake Zurich High School.
5. After almost 15 years as a Harper College trustee, Laurie Stone has resigned from the board, but she will help launch Harper's plan offering two years of free tuition to qualifying high schools students.
6. A newly formed committee of more than 20 members of the Elgin Police Department hopes to make a formal recommendation by October about outfitting officers with body cameras.
7. Joseph P. Galvan, an unsuccessful candidate for the Elgin mayor's office in April, has been picked to head the Illinois Housing Development Authority. Gov. Bruce Rauner appointed Galvan, 59, to the unpaid position of chairman of the housing agency.
8. The future of Metropolis Center for the Performing Arts in Arlington Heights could include more high-profile plays, more dance and arts classes for students, more fundraising, but also more financial support from the village.
9. A Batavia entrepreneur is taking his suburban Wiffle ball field concept and youth leagues to the masses. For several years, Andrew Martinez operated the Wifflot near Batavia, but he's now expanding the concept to park districts in West Chicago, Roselle and other towns.
10. The Lake in the Hills police department is seeing an increase in the number of people using its parking lot as a "safe haven" for Internet transactions. The department started offering the service in September.