Obituaries
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Vivienne Westwood, influential fashion maverick, dies at 81
Dec 30, 2022 12:00 am - LONDON - Vivienne Westwood, an influential fashion maverick who played a key role in the punk movement, died Thursday at age 81. Westwood's eponymous fashion house annou...
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Pelé, Brazil's mighty king of 'beautiful game,' has diedDec 29, 2022 12:00 am - SAO PAULO - Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died Thursday....
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Franco Harris, Steeler who caught Immaculate Reception, dies
Dec 21, 2022 12:00 am - PITTSBURGH - Franco Harris, the Hall of Fame running back whose heads-up thinking authored the "Immaculate Reception," considered the most iconic play in NFL history, ha...
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Michael Kennedy, former Wilmette deputy chief, diesDec 20, 2022 10:00 pm - Michael M. Kennedy of Wilmette, a former deputy chief with the Wilmette Police Department, died Dec. 14. Kennedy joined the Wilmette department in 1966 and served there ...
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'She never lost her sense of wonder': Longtime schoolteacher, Elgin museum educator Marge Fox diesDec 16, 2022 12:00 am - Friends and family say Marge Fox was an itinerant teacher who never lost her sense of wonder about the world. "Wherever we went, she was teaching," her daughter Brenda F...
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Port Edward Restaurant's founder, the 'Renaissance Man,' dies at 92
Dec 14, 2022 12:00 am - The final chapter of a storied man - a musician, an artist, a world traveler, a collector and the founder of the Port Edward Restaurant in Algonquin, affectionately refe...
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Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach dies at 61
Dec 13, 2022 12:00 am - Gruff, pioneering and unfiltered, Mike Leach was one of the most influential football coaches of this or any generation. His boundless curiosity and fascination for peop...
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'His passion for music was contagious': Wauconda school community remembers band teacherDec 09, 2022 12:00 am - Jack Holt, a popular band teacher at Wauconda High School, is being remembered as a kind spirit who grew the program and inspired students. Holt, 40, died Dec. 3 about a...
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Mills Lane, Hall of Fame boxing referee, dies at 85Dec 06, 2022 12:00 am - Mills Lane, the Hall of Fame boxing referee who was the third man in the ring when Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear, died Tuesday. He was 85. Lane had suffered a s...
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Co-founder of Stax Records in Memphis dies at 92
Dec 06, 2022 12:00 am - MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Jim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential Stax Records with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis n...