Obituaries
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Tina Turner, superstar whose hits included 'What's Love Got to Do With It,' dead at 83
May 24, 2023 1:00 am - NEW YORK - Tina Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and '7...
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Remembering Tina Turner, 1939-2023May 24, 2023 1:00 am - Music icon Tina Turner has died at 83. ...
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Actor Ray Stevenson, of 'Rome' and 'Thor' movies, dies at 58
May 22, 2023 1:00 am - Ray Stevenson, the Irish actor who played the villainous British governor in "RRR," an Asgardian warrior in the "Thor" films, and a member of the 13th Legion in HBO's "R...
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'We lost a great leader': Hoffman Estates mourns death of Trustee Michael GaetaMay 22, 2023 1:00 am - Michael Gaeta, a Hoffman Estates village trustee for the past decade, has died at the age of 86, his fellow village officials announced Monday. Gaeta had been attending ...
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Jim Brown, all-time NFL great and social activist, dead at 87
May 19, 2023 1:00 am - CLEVELAND - Jim Brown was virtually unstoppable in every arena. Whether on the field, as a Hollywood film hero or civil rights advocate, Brown was a force. One of the gr...
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Sam Zell, billionaire Chicago real estate investor, dies
May 18, 2023 1:00 am - Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate magnate who earned a multibillion-dollar fortune and a reputation as "the grave dancer" for his ability to revive moribund properties die...
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Former South Barrington Trustee Rosanne Plencner has diedMay 02, 2023 1:00 am - A former South Barrington trustee who served during parts of three decades has died. Rosanne Therese Plencner, 87, passed April 27 in Florida, where she had lived since ...
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Folk singer Gordon Lightfoot dies at 84
May 01, 2023 1:00 am - TORONTO - Gordon Lightfoot, Canada's legendary folk singer-songwriter whose hits including "Early Morning Rain" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" told a tale of C...
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Carolyn Bryant Donham, at center of Emmett Till death, dies
Apr 27, 2023 1:00 am - JACKSON, Miss. - The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at her - causing his 1955 lynching in Mississippi, which galvanized a generation of ...
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Jerry Springer, politician-turned-TV ringmaster, dies at 79
Apr 27, 2023 1:00 am - CINCINNATI - Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional guests willing to bare all - sometime...