Obituaries
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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...
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Former Lake County Board member rememberedDec 31, 2023 12:34 pm - Charles “Chuck” Bartels won his first elected office as a Lake County Board member only two years after he suffered a life-altering spinal cord injury. “He was not going ...
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British actor Tom Wilkinson, known for 'The Full Monty' and 'Michael Clayton', dies at 75
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Remembering those we've lost: Notable suburbanites who died in 2023Dec 30, 2023 5:30 am - Among the notable personalities we've lost from the suburbs this year are elected officials, humanitarians, a best-selling author and other standouts who helped shape the...
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The year in review: Influential people who died in 2023