• It’s a scenario of some residents’ dreams: After returning home from a weekend getaway they find that someone has decorated their place for the holidays. But it wasn’t a dream for a Herscher family who came home to that very situation earlier this week, and police now are investigating the case as a crime.

• Resisting a call to scrap the recently-adopted code enforcement inspection law in Bourbonnais, Village President Paul Schore said he sees changes that can be made and said the ordinance will not be enacted until it is adjusted.

• The annals of sports are filled with stories of teams, players and coaches overcoming adversity. Brett Ryan’s story probably won’t be made into a Hollywood movie, but it is cut from the same cloth as many of the legendary tales of toil and triumph. Read more in today’s sports section of The Daily Journal.