10 stories you might have missed this weekend

1. The Paramount led all other Chicago-area theaters with 16 nominations for Jefferson Awards, which will be awarded tonight. Drury Lane was second and Marriott tied for third, a new high water mark for the suburban theater scene.

2. The ranks of World War II veterans have thinned so much in the 70 years since the war's end that last week marked the last scheduled Honor Flight Chicago flight reserved exclusively for World War II veterans.

3. The late George Spannenberg of Arlington Heights loved the Chicago Cubs so much he spent more than half a month's rent for 1945 World Series tickets. He died in 2014 but would have loved seeing the Cubs get another shot, family says.

4. Ashley Keel's love of the haunt began eight years ago in an Elk Grove Village haunted house. The performance manager at 13th Floor Haunted House tells the gory behind-the-scenes details in this weeks INfrequently Asked Questions.

5. McHenry High School District 156 and the teachers union talked over the weekend in hopes of ending the strike that begame Thursday. But there's no school today.

6. Wood Dale's longest-serving mayor, Jerry Greer, died Friday after he and his wife Yvonne were in a car crash near their home in Cass City, Michigan.

7. Five people were taken to the hospital Saturday morning after a vehicle drove through the front doors of Wildwood Presbyterian Church near Grayslake, where volunteers were handing out food, officials said.

8. Several suburban mosques, including ones in Naperville, Wheaton, Des Plaines and Libertyville, planned open houses Sunday for anyone curious to learn more about Islam.

9. Elgin Community College has become the first suburban college to earn the state's seal of approval as a safe campus.

10. Arlington Heights police are asking for the public's help identifying an armed robber who struck a person in the drive-through lane at Dunkin' Donuts, demanded money and pointed a gun in the victim's face at 2:33 a.m.