Obituaries
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Pioneering journalist Helen Thomas dies at 92Jul 20, 2013 11:37 am - Associated Press WASHINGTON — Helen Thomas, the irrepressible White House correspondent who used her seat in the front row of history to grill nine presidents and was no...
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Funeral set for former Condell Medical Center president Eugene PritchardJul 15, 2013 9:43 am - A former president and CEO of what is now Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville has died. Eugene Pritchard was 80. He died Thursday, July 11, at the Autumn Lea...
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Retired West Chicago newspaper publisher diesJul 13, 2013 5:51 pm - H.W. “Bill” Treudt, a retired suburban journalist and publisher, died Wednesday at his son’s home in West Chicago. He was 89. Treudt spent his career with the West Chica...
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Notable deaths last weekJul 13, 2013 4:16 pm - The founder and chairman of the Massachusetts-based audio technology company Bose Corp. has died. Amar Bose was 83. The company was founded in 1964. It’s based in the Bo...
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Hoffman Estates High School mourns first principalJul 12, 2013 5:28 pm - Life story Thomas Hillesheim ~ 1937-2013 By Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald correspondent In the 40 years since Hoffman Estates High School opened, there have been onl...
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Inventor of iconic party game Twister diesJul 11, 2013 6:33 pm - ST. PAUL, Minn. — Twister called itself “the game that ties you up in knots.” Its detractors called it “sex in a box.” Charles “Chuck” Foley, the father of nine who inve...
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World War II vet from Mt. Prospect remembered for his humorJul 10, 2013 4:28 pm - Longtime Mount Prospect resident John B. Donato was the kind of person it was almost impossible to dislike, relatives say. “He was so magnetic,” his sister-in-law, Barba...
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Palatine theater community mourns ‘Sandy’ SandquistJul 10, 2013 2:36 pm - By Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald correspondent The Palatine theater community has taken another hit, with the passing of Elroy “Sandy” Sandquist, founder and driving for...
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Arlington Heights' first full-time firefighter diesJul 09, 2013 2:00 pm - The Arlington Heights Fire Department hired its first full-time firefighters in 1957 after operating as a volunteer force since the 1800s. Badge No. 1 that year was give...
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Former St. Charles alderman Donald Nippert diesJul 07, 2013 8:00 pm - Lifelong resident and former alderman Donald Nippert will be buried in St. Charles this week as his family and the community remember all that he contributed over the ye...