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Family, friends recall powerful community influence of former Nation Pizza COO Mike Alagna

By Eric Peterson
Aug 26, 2025 3:46 pm - Mike Alagna of Hoffman Estates wanted his own life experience to show young people a proficiency in academia wasn’t the only path to success in business and personal fulfillment.
James Dobson, influential founder of conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, dies age 89

By MIKE CATALINI and HOLLY MEYER
Aug 21, 2025 10:09 am - Dr. James Dobson, a child psychologist who founded the conservative ministry Focus on the Family and was a politically influential campaigner against abortion and LGBTQ+ ...
Danielle Spencer, who played little sister Dee on ‘What’s Happening!!,’ dies at 60

By ANDREW DALTON
Aug 12, 2025 5:27 pm - LOS ANGELES — Danielle Spencer, who played the wisecracking and tattling little sister Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom “What's Happening!!” has died at 60. Spencer, who b...
Longtime Northwest suburban tourism leader dies at 91

By Christopher Placek
Aug 09, 2025 6:36 pm - Former Northwest suburban marketing chief Thomas Rivera, who lobbied and gained the respect of governors and brought tourism dollars back to the region, has died at age 91. He considered the opening of the Schaumburg convention center his crowning achievement.
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.

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