Obituaries
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‘Fox Lake in her heart’: Former Mayor Nancy Koske diesJan 29, 2024 2:42 pm - Nancy E. Koske, a longtime Fox Lake resident who served as the town’s first female mayor and as a village trustee, has died. She was 72. Koske died Wednesday at home, sur...
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Funeral, visitation for Geneva pastor scheduledJan 28, 2024 9:00 am - The funeral for the Rev. Jonathan Bakkelund, who died last week while in hospice care, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Peter Catholic church, 1891 Kaneville Road in G...
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‘Everybody knew Jerry’: Elgin barber a staple of city’s downtown for six decadesJan 26, 2024 4:38 pm - Elgin barber Jerry Newman is remembered by friends and customers as a fixture of the city’s downtown, quick with a smile and a wave for anyone who walked by his shop wind...
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Community-minded movie theater owner Leo Marubio rememberedJan 26, 2024 11:18 am - Leo J. Marubio is being remembered as a “constant, reliable presence” who developed three movie theaters in the Northwest suburbs and was active in community affairs in a...
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Leader of the band: Naperville’s Ron Keller remembered as ‘son of this town’Jan 25, 2024 10:33 pm - Ron Keller established a Naperville tradition when the municipal band played a bombastic version of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” at its Fourth of July concerts. With the...
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McHenry County philanthropist, business leader, MCC patron Charles Liebman dies at 102
Jan 24, 2024 7:48 am - Longtime McHenry County philanthropist and business leader Charles Liebman – who has a building named for him at McHenry County College and was Bull Valley’s first villag...
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Charles Osgood, CBS host on TV and radio and network’s poet-in-residence, dies at 91Jan 24, 2024 6:43 am - Charles Osgood, a five-time Emmy Award-winning journalist who anchored “CBS Sunday Morning” for more than two decades, hosted the long-running radio program “The Osgood F...
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‘It’s a real tragedy’: Suburban CEO dies during anniversary celebration in IndiaJan 22, 2024 1:56 pm - The founder and CEO of a Hoffman Estates-based international software firm was killed late last week in an accident at an event in India celebrating the company’s 25th an...
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Dexter Scott King, son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., dies of cancer at 62
Jan 22, 2024 1:15 pm - ATLANTA — Dexter Scott King, the younger son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, died Monday after battling prostate cancer. The King Center in At...
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Elgin native, Pulitzer Prize-winning TV critic Shales dead at 79Jan 17, 2024 6:10 pm - Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic Tom Shales, an Elgin native whose witty, incisive observations inspired both respect and fear, according to The New York Times, d...