Obituaries
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UTFO's Kangol Kid dies after battle with cancer at 55
Dec 18, 2021 6:00 am - Kangol Kid, a member of the legendary hip-hop group UTFO, has died after a battle with colon cancer. He was 55. The family of Kangol Kid - whose real name is Shaun Shill...
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Hollywood bard, muse and reveler Eve Babitz dies at 78
Dec 18, 2021 6:00 am - Eve Babitz, the Hollywood bard, muse and reveler who with warmth and candor chronicled the excesses of her native world in the 1960s and 1970s and became a cult figure t...
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Ken Kragen, who helped organize 'We Are the World,' dies
Dec 17, 2021 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Ken Kragen, a top entertainment producer, manager and philanthropist who turned to such clients as Lionel Richie and Kenny Rogers in helping to organize ...
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Former Winfield trustee remembered for his love of local politicsDec 17, 2021 12:00 am - Former Winfield village trustee and community newspaper publisher Stan Zegel is being remembered for his love of local politics. Zegel, 77, died on Wednesday, Dec. 15. L...
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Kathy Flores, women's rugby legend as player and coach, dies
Dec 15, 2021 6:00 am - Kathy Flores, the legendary rugby player, coach and leader of the women's sport in the U.S. who touched every generation of players and coaches for more than 40 years, h...
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bell hooks, groundbreaking feminist thinker, dies at 69
Dec 15, 2021 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - bell hooks, the groundbreaking author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics and politics intertwined helped shape acad...
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Sleeman remembered for his life of service in ElginDec 14, 2021 12:00 am - About 100 people attended a Tuesday morning visitation and funeral service to say goodbye to a man who led a "life of service" in Elgin. Donald J. Sleeman died Dec. 7 at...
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Anne Rice, who breathed new life into vampires, dies at 80
Dec 13, 2021 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Anne Rice, the novelist whose lush, best-selling gothic tales, including 'œInterview With the Vampire,'ť reinvented the blood-drinking immortals as tragi...
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Former White Sox, Orioles GM Roland Hemond dies at age 92
Dec 13, 2021 6:00 am - Roland Hemond, whose 70-year career in baseball included three Executive of the Year awards as general manager of the Chicago White Sox and Baltimore Orioles, died Sunda...
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Famed White Sox executive Roland Hemond dies at 92Dec 13, 2021 12:00 am - Doug Melvin didn't know Roland Hemond when Hemond became Melvin's boss as general manager of the Baltimore Orioles in 1988. "Roland took me to lunch and said, 'Let's hav...