Obituaries
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Recent DCFS director diesDec 23, 2013 8:31 pm - Richard Calica, the former director of Illinois’ Department of Children and Family Services has died from cancer — just a month after he had resigned for health reasons....
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Rifle designer Mikhail Kalashnikov dead at 94Dec 23, 2013 12:57 pm - MOSCOW — Mikhail Kalashnikov started out wanting to make farm equipment, but the harvest he reaped was one of blood as the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, the world...
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Notable deaths last weekDec 21, 2013 3:00 pm - Good friends like Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard got more credit for their contrary ways and trend-setting ideas, but it was Ray Price who set the precedent for change ...
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'Animal Stories' radio legend Larry 'Uncle Lar' Lujack diesDec 18, 2013 8:00 pm - Radio legend Larry Lujack died Wednesday of esophageal cancer, ABC 7 Chicago reported. He was 73. Lujack, who previously lived in Palatine, died in New Mexico. Long befo...
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Cancer genetics pioneer dies at 88Dec 18, 2013 3:51 pm - Dr. Janet Rowley, a pioneer in cancer genetics research, has died at age 88. Rowley spent most of her career at the University of Chicago, where she also obtained her me...
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Church commnunity mourns longtime Long Grove pastorDec 17, 2013 5:14 pm - By Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald correspondent This year’s Interfaith Thanksgiving Service in Buffalo Grove was one of the largest in its 23 years, drawing 1,000 worshipp...
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Mandela buried in rolling hills of South AfricaDec 15, 2013 7:01 am - QUNU, South Africa — His flag-draped casket resting on a carpet of animal skins, Nelson Mandela was laid to rest Sunday in the green, rolling hills of the eastern hamlet...
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Traditional tribal rituals at Mandela’s funeralDec 15, 2013 6:06 am - JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela’s casket was draped in a lion skin, an ox was ritually slaughtered and a family elder kept talking to the body’s spirit: The state funeral ...
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Images: Nelson Mandela funeralDec 15, 2013 5:46 am - A hearse carrying Mandela’s body drove into his hometown Qunu in rural South Africa before his burial Sunday, returning the country’s peacemaker to the place where he ha...
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Notable deaths last weekDec 14, 2013 4:51 pm - Eleanor Parker, who was nominated for Academy Awards three times for her portrayals of strong-willed women and played a scheming baroness in “The Sound of Music,” has di...