Obituaries
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'Dogtown' skateboarder Jay Adams dies at 53Aug 15, 2014 1:01 am - LOS ANGELES - Jay Adams, the colorful rebel who helped transform skateboarding from a simple street pastime into one of the world's most spectacular sports with hair-rai...
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Robin Williams, boisterous comedy star, dead at 63Aug 10, 2014 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO - He was the funniest guy in the room, something that made it all the harder for friends and fans to accept that beneath that reservoir of frenetic energy ...
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Notable deaths last weekAug 09, 2014 1:01 am - • Henry Stone, a fixture on the R&B and disco scene who was instrumental in the careers of Ray Charles, James Brown and KC & the Sunshine Band, has died. He was 93. Ston...
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Services Friday for Long Grove man who died base jumpingAug 06, 2014 1:00 am - Services have been set for Adam Rubin, a 23-year-old Long Grove native who died last week in a base jumping accident in Twin Falls, Idaho. Rubin will be remembered with ...
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Ed Sprinkle, football's 'meanest man,' dies at 90Aug 05, 2014 1:01 am - Ed Sprinkle, a star defensive end for the Chicago Bears in the 1940s and '50s who was called the "meanest man" in football, has died. He was 90. He died July 28 in Palo...
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Long Grove man dies base jumping in IdahoAug 04, 2014 1:01 am - Tommy Schuch first met Adam Rubin minutes after Rubin's first tandem sky-dive - when Rubin had a huge smile splayed across his face and a promise to jump again on his li...
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Notable deaths last weekAug 02, 2014 1:01 am - • Manny Roth, a colorful club owner in Greenwich Village whose Cafe Wha? and its basement level stage was a rite of passage in the 1960s for Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bru...
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Memorial service set for mom who saved boyJul 25, 2014 1:00 am - A memorial service for Karen Wessel, the Arlington Heights mom who died after heroically saving a 9-year-old boy from drowning in a Wisconsin lake, will be held Saturday...
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Arlington Heights mom dies saving boy in Wisconsin lakeJul 24, 2014 1:00 am - An Arlington Heights single mother of two died Tuesday after jumping into a northern Wisconsin lake to save the 9-year-old godson of her friend. Karen Wessel, 47, was va...
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Friends mourn loss of advocate for suburban homelessJul 24, 2014 1:00 am - By Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald correspondent Mary Cadigan was a slightly built mother of six whose parents came from Ireland, but friends and acquaintances knew her as ...