Obituaries
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Notable deaths last weekJun 22, 2013 5:06 pm - James Gandolfini’s lumbering, brutish mob boss with the tortured psyche will endure as one of TV’s indelible characters. But his portrayal of criminal Tony Soprano in HB...
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Suburban ‘pumpkin man’ brought the country to city folkJun 17, 2013 6:02 pm - Wayne Goede grew up on his father’s Des Plaines truck farm, driving vegetables into Chicago. Along with the farming industry, he also learned something important about c...
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Nobel Prize-winning economist diesJun 12, 2013 3:42 pm - Robert W. Fogel, a University of Chicago economist whose study of the economics of slavery sparked a furious debate in academia and later helped garner him a Nobel Prize...
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Prospect Hts. parks leader remembered for love of family, communityJun 11, 2013 2:04 pm - Patrick W. Ludvigsen had two passions — his family and Prospect Heights. And he served them both well, his son, city Alderman Patrick J. Ludvigsen, said Tuesday. Ludvigs...
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Notable deaths last weekJun 08, 2013 7:05 pm - The next time a flight attendant reminds you there’s no smoking or you witness a teenager getting carded at a liquor store, think of Frank Lautenberg. The liberal Democr...
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‘Night Stalker’ serial killer Richard Ramirez diesJun 07, 2013 12:43 pm - LOS ANGELES — Richard Ramirez, the notorious serial killer known as the Night Stalker, died early Friday in a hospital, a state official said. Ramirez, 53, “passed away ...
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Notable deaths last weekJun 01, 2013 5:05 pm - The Rev. Andrew Greeley was, it seems, always writing. At home on a typewriter, later on a computer, then on a plane with a laptop and even in his car dictating into a t...
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Roland Meyer, early Rolling Meadows mayor, diesMay 30, 2013 5:37 pm - Roland Meyer, Rolling Meadows’ longest-serving mayor, died earlier this spring, Mayor Tom Rooney announced at a recent city council meeting. While Meyer’s death occurred...
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Hotel magnate, Mo. philanthropist Hammons diesMay 27, 2013 5:01 pm - SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — John Q. Hammons’ first business went bust, saddling him with debt. Yet the son of a poor Missouri dairy farmer paid it off within two years and turned...
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Notable deaths last weekMay 25, 2013 6:49 pm - Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison’s gloomy baritone and helped set...