Obituaries
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Losses in sports in 2013: Musial, Weaver, GriffithDec 26, 2013 5:42 am - The soundtracks could not have been more different. One was the stinging crack of the bat of yet another double in the gap and the folksy harmonica strains of some song ...
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2013 food news: Bidding adieu to Charlie Trotter and trans fatsDec 26, 2013 5:01 am - It wasn’t Paula Deen’s career implosion. Nor the rise and fall of the Cronut. It wasn’t even the Sriracha apocalypse. This year’s most significant food moment was more s...
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Chicago area loses its own icons in 2013Dec 26, 2013 4:46 am - Writers, actors, ball players, radio icons and more - in 2013 the region lost some famous people who were part of the Chicago area family. Here is a final look. Kare...
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Images: Notable deaths in 2013Dec 26, 2013 4:46 am - Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher and Roger Ebert were among the list of notable deaths for 2013. Here is a gallery of those we bade farewell to in 2013. ...
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Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2013Dec 26, 2013 4:00 am - We bid farewell to political greats Mandela and Thatcher, and one of influential movie critics, Roger Ebert
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Recent DCFS director diesDec 23, 2013 8:31 pm - Richard Calica, the former director of Illinois’ Department of Children and Family Services has died from cancer — just a month after he had resigned for health reasons....
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Rifle designer Mikhail Kalashnikov dead at 94Dec 23, 2013 12:57 pm - MOSCOW — Mikhail Kalashnikov started out wanting to make farm equipment, but the harvest he reaped was one of blood as the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, the world...
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Notable deaths last weekDec 21, 2013 3:00 pm - Good friends like Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard got more credit for their contrary ways and trend-setting ideas, but it was Ray Price who set the precedent for change ...
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'Animal Stories' radio legend Larry 'Uncle Lar' Lujack diesDec 18, 2013 8:00 pm - Radio legend Larry Lujack died Wednesday of esophageal cancer, ABC 7 Chicago reported. He was 73. Lujack, who previously lived in Palatine, died in New Mexico. Long befo...
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Cancer genetics pioneer dies at 88Dec 18, 2013 3:51 pm - Dr. Janet Rowley, a pioneer in cancer genetics research, has died at age 88. Rowley spent most of her career at the University of Chicago, where she also obtained her me...