2 year old pulverized pepper | Portillos stabbing | Children injured in accident

ILLINOIS – This weekend we're featuring a week's worth of top news and headlines from across Illinois. Here's a roundup of some of the most-read stories across the state. You can also find your local patch and follow these stories by clicking here.

Man arrested, woman pepper sprays child in melee at college: cops

Police said a father concerned about his daughter's harassment showed up at the high school, shoved two teenage girls and punched a man in the face, before a woman entered the argument and deployed pepper spray, striking a school employee and a 2-year-old child. old child.

Man stabs woman inside closed Portillo's restaurant in domestic incident: police

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Police said a man and two women were part of a night cleaning crew at the restaurant when the man stabbed one of the women during a domestic incident. The two women were able to escape and the man was found inside the restaurant with self-inflicted injuries three hours later, authorities said.

11 children injured in the accident of 3 school buses

Eleven children were taken to local hospitals with minor injuries after police said a bus driver caused a chain-reaction crash, hitting a bus in front of him on I-55 and causing that bus to hit a third bus.

It took a village to find our little white dog: comment

“Last Friday, our beloved Stella – a 4-year-old, 12-pound Bichon Shih Tzu mix – ran away from our dog-sitter's house,” the owner wrote. “We were out of town celebrating the college graduations of two of our children. For well-intentioned reasons, she waited until the last graduation to tell us that Stella had been missing for two days. We were devastated and impatient coming home to find her was a nightmare.”

Jewish graduate student alleges anti-Semitism in latest class-action lawsuit against university

The anonymous student said the university “considers and treats him as a second-class citizen” after the school signed an agreement with pro-Palestinian members of the camp.

Numerous scams reported over accidental death of high school student: police

Police are warning residents about the “numerous” scams that have recently surfaced surrounding the recent death of Marko Niketic, a 17-year-old high school student who died in a car crash on Mother's Day. Police say the teen's family did not authorize, organize or participate in any Facebook or GoFundMe pages to solicit donations.

'1 in a million' discovery as woman spies on rare blue-eyed cicada

A south suburban woman and exotic animal lover got a thrill while looking at 200 pairs of cicadas eyes earlier this week — not the striking (or demonic, as a joke) red eyes they are known for. Instead, bright blue. Instead of donating the striking specimen to a Chicago museum, “I'm going to have it taxidermied,” she said. “I’ll keep it.”