Obituaries
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Life of 40-year trustee Petri celebrated in Elk Grove council chambersAug 08, 2020 1:00 am - There was no better place to celebrate the life of James "Jim" Paul Petri than in the Elk Grove Village council chambers he served in for four decades, though the villag...
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Eminent scholar of early U.S., Bernard Bailyn, dies at 97
Aug 07, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Bernard Bailyn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and educator of lasting influence whose 'œThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution'ť transfo...
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Lorenzo Soria, president of Golden Globes group, dies at 68
Aug 07, 2020 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Lorenzo Soria, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and former editor of the Italian news weekly L'Espresso, died Friday, the associat...
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Ford, Bush presidential adviser Brent Scowcroft dies at 95
Aug 07, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Brent Scowcroft, who played a prominent role in American foreign policy as national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush and...
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Scowcroft, national security adviser to 2 presidents, dies
Aug 07, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - A lifetime before he served two presidents as national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft was just 12 when he decided to become a West Point cadet after...
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Educator who helped design, run Palatine High School dies at 93Aug 06, 2020 1:00 am - William Thiel, who served as an associate principal for Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 schools for 16 years and was instrumental in helping design the curr...
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President of Venezuelan soccer body Berardinelli dies
Aug 05, 2020 7:00 am - CARACAS (AP) - Venezuela's soccer federation president Jesús Berardinelli has died two weeks after he suddenly lost consciousness and presented other health problems in...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Shirley Ann Grau dies at 91
Aug 05, 2020 7:00 am - NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Shirley Ann Grau, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer whose stories and novels told of both the dark secrets and the beauty of the Deep South, has...
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Pete Hamill, legendary New York columnist and novelist, dies
Aug 05, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Pete Hamill, the self-taught, street-wise newspaper columnist whose love affair with New York inspired a colorful and uniquely influential journalistic c...
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Longtime police officer from Wheeling remembered for 'grace and determination'Aug 05, 2020 1:00 am - Robert Michael LaMantia, a Wheeling resident whose long law enforcement career included 11 years as Lincolnwood's police chief, is being remembered as kind, caring and g...