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10 stories you might have missed this weekend

1. Just as they've done every year on Oct. 25, families, firefighters and police officers gathered in Fox River Grove on Sunday to remember the deadly 1995 school bus accident that killed seven students. "Time goes on and you have to live life. But is (the pain) there? Yeah, it's there. Every year, on the 25th, it's there. It doesn't go away," said Fox River Grove Police Chief Ron Lukasik.

2. After the NTSB hammered at flaws in railway and traffic signal design that contributed to seven teens dying at a Fox River Grove crossing, Illinois instituted sweeping changes. But are they enough?

3. Brett Lerner, a University of Illinois student from Buffalo Grove, was on his way to cover a high school football game for a downstate television station, when he was killed Friday night in a two-vehicle crash.

4. Still feeling down about the Cubs' exit from the National League playoffs? Arlington Heights artist Cathy Weadley might have just the thing to lift your spirits and get you ready for next year, Burt Constable writes.

5. Although it's too late to make a difference this Halloween, 11-year-old Naperville resident Sara Marston isn't giving up her fights to persuade a homeowner's association to reverse rules that have eliminated a massive - and massively popular -holiday display.

6. Illinois' budget impasse is creating plenty of angst in suburban communities that rely on state revenues, and perhaps that's nowhere more the case than in towns like Elgin, Des Plaines and Aurora, which count on casino payouts held up by the stalemate.

7. A 41-year-old Streamwood man spent the weekend behind bars in the Cook County jail after authorities charged him with the sex trafficking of a teenage girl.

8. A Des Plaines alderman is renewing her push to eliminate health insurance benefits for elected officials like herself, but she faces an uphill battle. Previous attempts to raise the issue have failed to even get enough aldermen to agree to put it on a meeting agenda.

9. When she thinks of a food pantry, Megan Selck pictures a tiny church closet and cans of green beans. Find out in this week's INfrequently Asked Questions why Selck considers her Loves and Fishes more akin to a Whole Foods or Mariano's.

10. The first suburban medical marijuana dispensaries are still weeks away from opening, but one planned in Buffalo Grove got a head start this weekend by hosting an event to help people qualify for medicinal use of the drug.

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