Obituaries
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Women’s baseball star, movie inspirer Davis diesFeb 03, 2013 9:28 pm - LOS ANGELES — Lavonne “Pepper” Paire-Davis, a star of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s and an inspiration for the movie “A League of Thei...
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Local veterans celebrate life of longtime Hoffman Estates residentFeb 01, 2013 1:07 pm - Longtime Hoffman Estates resident John Kmetz regularly told his daughter, Cheryl Kmetz, to just do “whatever it takes.” For her, he epitomized “the Marines commitment t...
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Maine West, South lose hall of fame coach, teacherJan 27, 2013 2:00 pm - By all accounts, George Verber hated to lose. His intensity as a longtime teacher and coach at Maine South and later Maine West high schools was infamous, but the coach ...
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Prominent Chicago businessman dies in CaliforniaJan 24, 2013 8:47 pm - RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Barry Lind, a leading voice in the futures industry for many years and a fixture at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, has died after being hit by ...
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Longtime Batavia alderman Beckman rememberedJan 21, 2013 1:19 pm - Charles “Chuck” Beckman Jr. of Batavia was passionate about taking care of the town in which he grew up. That included a 16-year stint as a firefighter; fixing people’s ...
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Baseball reflects on Hall of Famers Weaver, MusialJan 20, 2013 6:00 am - One was born in St. Louis, the other became a star there. Aside from that, Earl Weaver and Stan Musial were about as different as two Hall of Famers could be. “Talk abou...
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Former Des Plaines alderman dies at 85Jan 18, 2013 1:31 pm - Former Des Plaines alderman Carmen Sarlo, 85, died Thursday. He suffered from heart problems and prostate cancer, according to a close friend. Sarlo, a retired Navistar ...
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'Rainbows' founder spent 30 years helping kids healJan 16, 2013 6:00 pm - The founder of Rainbows for All Children, whose mission 30 years ago to help children struggling with divorce or the death of a parent grew into a worldwide movement, ha...
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Web activist’s family blames prosecutors for deathJan 13, 2013 4:03 pm - NEW YORK — The family of a Reddit co-founder who committed suicide weeks before he was to go on trial on federal charges that he stole millions of scholarly articles is ...
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Libertyville man embodied 'greatest generation'Jan 10, 2013 1:00 pm - The first person to eulogize Libertyville resident William Madole on Friday will have a hard time limiting his comments. “They're giving me three minutes and I'm trying ...