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Vivienne Westwood, influential fashion maverick, dies at 81

By GREGORY KATZ Associated Press
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...
Pelé, Brazil's mighty king of 'beautiful game,' has died

By TALES AZZONI and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press
Dec 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....
Franco Harris, Steeler who caught Immaculate Reception, dies

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer
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...
Michael Kennedy, former Wilmette deputy chief, dies

By Dave Oberhelman
Dec 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 ...
'She never lost her sense of wonder': Longtime schoolteacher, Elgin museum educator Marge Fox dies

By Rick West
Dec 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...
Port Edward Restaurant's founder, the 'Renaissance Man,' dies at 92

By Amanda Marrazzo Shaw Local News Network
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...
Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach dies at 61

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer
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...
'His passion for music was contagious': Wauconda school community remembers band teacher

By Mick Zawislak
Dec 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...
Mills Lane, Hall of Fame boxing referee, dies at 85

By BRIAN MAHONEY Associated Press
Dec 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...
Co-founder of Stax Records in Memphis dies at 92

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press
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...

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