Obituaries
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Ebert's services set for MondayApr 06, 2013 6:00 pm - The funeral service for film critic Roger Ebert will be held Monday at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. The 10 a.m. service will be open to friends and fans of the belove...
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Ebert kept strong link to U of I, Daily IlliniApr 04, 2013 5:12 pm - Roger Ebert never forgot his alma mater, the University of Illinois. The famed film critic was one of the most visible alumni of the school and made large donations. Tha...
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Emanuel, Quinn praise late film critic Roger EbertApr 04, 2013 4:22 pm - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is praising famed film critic Roger Ebert for his contributions to the motion picture industry as well as to the city. After learning that th...
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Ebert was first film critic to win PulitzerApr 04, 2013 4:12 pm - Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize- winning film critic famous for his thumbs-up, thumbs-down method of judging movies, has died. He was 70. He died Thursday in Chicago fol...
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Fremd High School sophomore dies visiting family in CaliforniaApr 01, 2013 11:00 am - When doctors told Valecha Banks she needed to remove her son from Southern California's rampant smog and pollen, she immediately put in for a transfer to her company's M...
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Notable deaths last weekMar 30, 2013 5:15 pm - Richard Griffiths was one of the great British stage actors of his generation, a heavy man with a light touch, whether in Shakespeare or Neil Simon. But for millions of ...
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Martyl Langsdorf, Doomsday Clock artist, dies at 96Mar 29, 2013 5:15 am - Martyl Langsdorf, longtime resident of Schaumburg's historic Schweikher House and the professional artist who first depicted the nuclear Doomsday Clock, died Tuesday at ...
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Martyl Langsdorf, artist who designed Doomsday Clock, dies at 96Mar 28, 2013 10:22 am - Resident of historic Schaumburg home designed the Doomsday Clock
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Arlington Heights referee, youth advocate loses battle with cancerMar 26, 2013 11:30 am - Longtime Northwest suburban basketball referee Bill Spicer, who battled a rare form of leukemia for nearly a year, succumbed to the disease Sunday. He was 59. Spicer suf...
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Longtime religious leader dies from brain cancerMar 26, 2013 10:20 am - Monsignor Robert Hoffman touched the lives of many people throughout the suburbs during a tenure in the church that saw him serve from DeKalb and Rockford to Aurora and ...