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A 'zest for people': Wickstrom family remembers public face of Roselle dealership

By Katlyn Smith
Feb 04, 2020 12:00 am - Before the Walter E. Smithe brothers and Peter Francis Geraci earned their place in the Chicago TV commercial pantheon, there was Dan Wickstrom. Wickstrom's charisma mad...
Eminent man of letters George Steiner dead at age 90

By HILLEL ITALIE
Feb 03, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - George Steiner, who became one of the world's leading public intellectuals through his uncommon erudition, multilingual perspective and the provocative l...
Bernie Ebbers, ex-CEO convicted in WorldCom scandal, dies

By MALLIKA SEN
Feb 03, 2020 6:00 am - The former chief of WorldCom, convicted in one of the largest corporate accounting scandals in U.S. history, died just over a month after his early release from prison. ...
Former Georgia basketball star Terry Fair dies at 59

The Associated Press
Feb 01, 2020 6:00 am - ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - Terry Fair, a key player on Georgia only men's Final Four team, has died at the age of 59. The university said Fair died Thursday of natural causes in...
Author Mary Higgins Clark, 'Queen of Suspense,' dead at 92

By HILLEL ITALIE
Feb 01, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Mary Higgins Clark, the tireless and long-reigning "Queen of Suspense" whose tales of women beating the odds made her one of the world's most popular wri...
Andy Gill, guitarist for punk band Gang of Four, has died

By MARK KENNEDY
Feb 01, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Guitarist Andy Gill, who supplied the scratching, seething sound that fueled the highly influential British punk band Gang of Four, died Saturday, accord...
Jasper Sanfilippo built nut company and an unusual collection of musical instruments

By Eileen O. Daday
Feb 01, 2020 12:00 am - Jasper Sanfilippo built his family's nut business into a publicly traded company that last year had $876 million in sales. However, it is his passion for musical instrum...
Navajo Code Talker dies at 96; less than a handful remain

Associated Press
Jan 31, 2020 6:00 am - WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) - One of the few remaining Navajo Code Talkers who used their native language to confound the Japanese in World War II has died. Joe Vandever Sr....
Anne Cox Chambers, wealthy newspaper heiress, dies at 100

By JEFF MARTIN
Jan 31, 2020 6:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - Anne Cox Chambers, a newspaper heiress, diplomat and philanthropist who was one of the country's richest women, died Friday at the age of 100. Chambers' ...
Fred Silverman, TV executive at 3 major networks, dies at 82

By LYNN ELBER
Jan 30, 2020 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Fred Silverman, the only TV executive who steered programming for each of the Big Three broadcast networks and who brought 'œAll in the Family,'ť 'œRo...

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