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8 Stories You Might've Missed This Week

By DNAinfo Staff | December 19, 2014 7:39pm 

 Some of our favorite stories of the week that may have flown under your radar.
Some of our favorite stories of the week that may have flown under your radar.
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• Thinking about checking out the popular Christmas light displays on the Northwest Side? Check out our handy map.

• There are only a few shopping days left before Christmas. So for you serial procrastinators, we give you our Chicago neighborhood gift guide. From Downtown to Uptown, Pullman to Portage Park, you're sure to find something special here.

• Chicago's only shipwreck rests on the bottom of Lake Michigan off the shores of Kenwood. And while a 2006 Park District plan would have built a sandy peninsula over the wreck of the Silver Spray, a new proposal will preserve it, while extending and raising the shoreline, reports Sam Cholke.

• What's an NFL player to do after he retires? Go on TV? Travel the world? Not if you're Victor Adeyanju, a Curie High grad who play pro ball for four seasons. As Justin Breen reports, after hanging up the cleats, Adeyanju gravitated towards his next passion: computers. Now he's a help-desk for Apple.

• Robin Williams, snowboarding and Ebola were some of the topics Chicagoans Googled the most in 2014. Many were also curious how to dougie, writes Kyla Gardner.

• When dozens of writers were named winners of the Chicago Screenplay Contest this summer, they expected to win promised cash, prizes and, most importantly, meetings with industry insiders. But the meetings never came, and they could not piece together the puzzle of who was behind the contest: a Las Vegas venture capital fund run by a one-time promising filmmaker whose company manages numerous similar contests and festivals across the nation -- and whose winners recount similar frustrations, as Alex Parker reports.

Could worms save the world? Casey Cora talks to one man who thinks they just might.

• A gorgeous century-old duplex in Lincoln Park is on the market.

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