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Former FBI and CIA Director William H. Webster dies at 101

By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL
Aug 08, 2025 7:41 pm - William H. Webster, the former FBI and CIA director whose troubleshooting skills and integrity helped restore public confidence in those federal agencies, has died, his family announced Friday. He was 101.
Apollo 13 moon mission leader James Lovell dies at 97

By DON BABWIN
Aug 08, 2025 2:47 pm - James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97.Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA said in a statement on Friday.
Glen Ellyn mourns sudden death of Trustee Szymanski

By Dave Oberhelman
Aug 08, 2025 2:42 pm - Glen Ellyn mourns the death of Trustee Steve Szymanski, who helped guide significant projects as chair of the village’s Capital Improvements Commission.
Popular 1980s actor Loni Anderson of the hit TV series ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ has died

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER
Aug 03, 2025 8:01 pm - Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday.
Former Schaumburg Township trustee, clerk, Historical Society President Bob Vinnedge dies

By Eric Peterson
Jul 29, 2025 4:25 pm - Longtime Schaumburg Township official and Historical Society President Bob Vinnedge of Hoffman Estates, who died Friday at 80 years old, is being remembered as a true gentleman and public servant by those who knew him best.
Palatine community mourns passing of Durty Nellie’s co-owner Mark Dolezal

By Eric Peterson
Jul 28, 2025 11:22 am - The Palatine community and music fans from across the suburbs are mourning the death of 75-year-old Mark Dolezal, who’s co-owned Durty Nellie’s in the village’s downtown since 1988.
Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97

By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Jul 27, 2025 6:23 pm - Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities, has died. He was 97.
Hulk Hogan, icon in professional wrestling, dies at age 71

Associated Press
Jul 24, 2025 11:21 am - Hulk Hogan, the mustachioed, headscarf-wearing, bicep-busting icon of professional wrestling who turned the sport into a massive business and stretched his cultural influence far beyond the ring, died Thursday in Florida at age 71.
Ozzy Osbourne, who led Black Sabbath and became the godfather of heavy metal, dies at 76

By MARK KENNEDY
Jul 22, 2025 1:26 pm - Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath, who became the throaty, growling voice — and drug-and-alcohol ravaged id —...
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, ‘Cosby Show’ actor, dies at 54 in Costa Rica drowning

Associated Press
Jul 21, 2025 1:25 pm - SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who as teenage son Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” was central to a cultural phenomenon that helped define the 1980s, died...

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