Obituaries
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Accomplished suburban jazz musician, businessman dies at 80Feb 04, 2018 12:00 am - Services will be held Saturday for Dick Mattick, an accomplished suburban jazz pianist who specialized in the music of the 1920s through the 1950s. Mattick, a Barrington...
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Dennis Edwards, Temptations singer for 2 decades, dies at 74
Feb 03, 2018 6:00 am - DETROIT (AP) - Dennis Edwards, a Grammy-winning former member of the famed Motown group The Temptations, has died. He was 74. Edwards died Thursday in Chicago after a lo...
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Correction: Obit-Jon Huntsman Sr story
Feb 03, 2018 6:00 am - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - In a story Feb. 2 about Jon Huntsman Sr., The Associated Press erroneously reported the amount of money Huntsman gave to a super PAC supporting his...
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Theater veteran and 'Mad About You' actor Louis Zorich dies
Feb 02, 2018 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Tony Award-nominated actor Louis Zorich, who played a grumpy Greek diner owner in "The Muppets Take Manhattan" and the father of Paul Reiser's character ...
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Cliff Bourland, America's oldest living gold medalist, dies
Feb 02, 2018 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Olympic sprinter Cliff Bourland, America's oldest living gold medalist, has died. He was 97. He died Thursday of complications from pneumonia in Santa...
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Longtime owner of Elk Grove Village's Busse Farm dies at 65Feb 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....
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Azeglio Vicini, Italy's coach at 1990 World Cup, dies at 84
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...
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Reports: Gouri, Israeli poet of founding generation, dies
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...
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Former Padres, Diamondbacks GM Kevin Towers dies of cancer
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...
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Former CLC board member, activist Philip Carrigan diesJan 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...