Obituaries
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Notable deaths last weekOct 25, 2014 1:01 am - • Oscar de la Renta, the worldly gentleman designer who shaped the wardrobe of socialites and Hollywood stars for more than four decades, has died. He was 82. De la Rent...
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Custom urns courtesy of 3-D printerOct 25, 2014 1:01 am - Associated Press EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - A Minnesota startup is using a 3-D printer to create custom urns shaped like objects that were important to the person whose remai...
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Cream vocalist, bassist Jack Bruce dies at 71Oct 25, 2014 1:01 am - LONDON - British musician Jack Bruce, best known as the lead vocalist and bass player of the power blues trio Cream, died Saturday at his home, his family and publicist ...
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Longtime suburban businessman remembered for community serviceOct 22, 2014 1:01 am - Jim Lancaster, a well-known and respected suburban businessman who one friend said "seemed to have a driving force inside him," passed away Sunday at the age of 82. Lanc...
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Former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee diesOct 21, 2014 1:01 am - Washington Post exposed Watergate break-in, cover-up
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Robert Cohen, Maine Township emergency management director, dies at 65Oct 18, 2014 1:01 am - Robert Cohen, who rose through the ranks to become Maine Township's director of the Office of Emergency Management, died earlier this week while he was out of town in Ke...
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Notable deaths last weekOct 11, 2014 1:01 am - • Pavel Landovsky, 78, a Czech actor, anti-communist dissident and a friend of late president and playwright Vaclav Havel, has died. Landovsky appeared in numerous movie...
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Rolling Meadows mourns loss of dedicated veteranOct 07, 2014 1:01 am - Robert L. Smith Jr. of Rolling Meadows, a Vietnam War veteran who spent the rest of his life dedicated to veterans organizations and causes, died Sept. 30 at the age of ...
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Not all suburban veterans know burial rights or optionsOct 05, 2014 7:15 am - When George Wingerter looks out over the rows of graves at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, he sees history. He sees the generations of soldiers who have se...
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Notable deaths last weekOct 04, 2014 1:01 am - • Jean-Claude Duvalier, who presided over what was widely acknowledged as a corrupt and brutal regime as the self-proclaimed "president for life" of Haiti until a popula...