Woman believed to be oldest Chicagoan dies

A woman believed to be the oldest person living in Chicago is dead.

Virginia Call, whose family claimed she was 115 but records indicated she was 111, died Tuesday at Provident Hospital. A cause of death was not given. However, John Paylor, a grandson, said Call had been in the hospital for 11 days before she died.

While her age was in dispute, there is no doubt Call was the oldest registered voter in the city of Chicago. The Chicago Board of Elections chairman Langdon Neal went to Call's South Side home in January 2008 to register her. She made an X on a voter registration card.

The Gerontology Research Group, which keeps records on the oldest people in the world, found a Yazoo County, Miss. census record from 1910 with Call's maiden name, Virginia Green, which indicated she was 12 years old.