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Longtime owner of Elk Grove Village's Busse Farm dies at 65

By Chacour Koop
Feb 01, 2018 12:00 am - Timothy Allen "Tim" Busse, the longtime owner of Busse Farm in Elk Grove Village and a scion of a family instrumental in founding the suburbs, died Wednesday. He was 65....
Azeglio Vicini, Italy's coach at 1990 World Cup, dies at 84

The Associated Press
Jan 31, 2018 6:00 am - ROME (AP) - Azeglio Vicini, who coached Italy to a third-place finish as host of the 1990 World Cup, has died. He was 84. The Italian soccer federation said Wednesday th...
Reports: Gouri, Israeli poet of founding generation, dies

The Associated Press
Jan 31, 2018 6:00 am - JERUSALEM (AP) - Haim Gouri, a leading Israeli poet of the state's founding generation, died Wednesday, according to media reports. He was 94. President Reuven Rivlin in...
Former Padres, Diamondbacks GM Kevin Towers dies of cancer

By BERNIE WILSON
Jan 30, 2018 6:00 am - SAN DIEGO (AP) - Kevin Towers was baseball's version of a gunslinger, a seat-of-the-pants, throwback kind of guy who did whatever it took to make the San Diego Padres co...
Former CLC board member, activist Philip Carrigan dies

By Doug T. Graham
Jan 30, 2018 12:00 am - Former College of Lake County board member, longtime activist and Lake County community leader Philip Carrigan died Sunday at the age of 73. Carrigan, a Waukegan reside...
Longtime advocate for Aurora-area Latinos dies at 83

By Susan Sarkauskas
Jan 30, 2018 12:00 am - Art Velasquez of North Aurora was passionate about education, civil rights for Latinos, Democratic politics and the rights of laborers. Right up to his dying day, he was...
Jazz musician, Nazi camp survivor, Coco Schumann dies at 93

The Associated Press
Jan 29, 2018 6:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Heinz Jakob "Coco" Schumann, a jazz guitarist who survived Nazi concentration camps to return to his musical career in Berlin after World War II, has died....
One of last Sobibor death camp survivors dies in Ukraine

The Associated Press
Jan 29, 2018 6:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Arkady Waispapir, one of the last known survivors of the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, has died in Ukraine. He was 96. The Berlin-based Memorial to the Murder...
1977 Indianapolis 500 top rookie Jerry Sneva dead at 69

The Associated Press
Jan 29, 2018 6:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Jerry Sneva, the 1977 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year, has died. He was 69. Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced Monday that Sneva died Saturday...
Buffalo Grove mourning loss of veteran firefighter

By Charles Keeshan
Jan 29, 2018 12:00 am - The village of Buffalo Grove is mourning the loss of veteran firefighter/paramedic Kevin Hauber, who bravely fought colon cancer for four years before succumbing to the ...

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