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Retired Elgin Community College board member, Larkin High teacher John Duffy dies at 91

By Eric Peterson
Jan 10, 2026 8:03 pm - Funeral services will be held this week for longtime Larkin High School teacher and Elgin Community College board member John Duffy, who died on Christmas Eve at the age of 91.
Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir dies at 78

By ANDREW DALTON
Jan 10, 2026 7:01 pm - Bob Weir, guitarist, singer and founding member of the Grateful Dead, has died at age 78.Weir's death was announced Saturday in a statement on his Instagram page.
U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly’s stepdaughter dies at age 38

By Marni Pyke
Jan 07, 2026 6:00 pm - Kelly, who is in the middle of a campaign for U.S. Senate, made the announcement Wednesday.
Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, dies at 80

Jan 07, 2026 4:02 pm - Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan and a conservative commentator, has died. He was 80.
Farm champion Rep. Doug LaMalfa of California dies, reducing GOP’s narrow control of the House

By TRÂN NGUYEN, MIKE CATALINI and KEVIN FREKING
Jan 06, 2026 8:56 pm - Republican Doug LaMalfa, a California rice farmer who served seven terms in the U.S. House and was a reliable vote on President Donald Trump's agenda, has died at age 65.
Aldrich Ames, most damaging CIA traitor in agency history, dies at 84

By Walter Pincus
Jan 06, 2026 7:32 pm - Aldrich H. Ames, the CIA officer whose spying for Moscow was the most damaging breach in the agency’s history, reportedly causing the deaths of at least 10 recruited CIA or allied intelligence agents, died Jan. 5 at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland. He was 84.
Hockey Hall of Fame player and longtime Blackhawks executive Bob Pulford dies at 89

By STEPHEN WHYNO
Jan 05, 2026 7:11 pm - Bob Pulford, a Hockey Hall of Fame player who went on to a lengthy career in the NHL as a coach and general manager, has died. He was 89. A spokesperson for the NHL Alumn...
Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss, stepsister of Anne Frank, dies at 96

By JILL LAWLESS
Jan 05, 2026 7:24 am - Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss, the stepsister of teenage diarist Anne Frank and a tireless educator about the horrors of the Holocaust, has died. She was 96.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Native American senator, dies at 92

By Tom Hamburger
Dec 31, 2025 3:44 pm - Former U.S. Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado, who overcame a hardscrabble childhood to become the first Native American chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and a leader of the effort to build the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, died Dec. 30. He was 92.
Former Hoffman Estates village trustee Cary Collins dies at 78

By Eric Peterson
Dec 31, 2025 1:48 pm - Former Hoffman Estates trustee and park district commissioner Cary Collins died the day after Christmas at the age of 78.

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