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Palatine community mourns passing of Durty Nellie’s co-owner Mark Dolezal

By Eric Peterson
Jul 28, 2025 11:22 am - The Palatine community and music fans from across the suburbs are mourning the death of 75-year-old Mark Dolezal, who’s co-owned Durty Nellie’s in the village’s downtown since 1988.
Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97

By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Jul 27, 2025 6:23 pm - Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities, has died. He was 97.
Hulk Hogan, icon in professional wrestling, dies at age 71

Associated Press
Jul 24, 2025 11:21 am - Hulk Hogan, the mustachioed, headscarf-wearing, bicep-busting icon of professional wrestling who turned the sport into a massive business and stretched his cultural influence far beyond the ring, died Thursday in Florida at age 71.
Ozzy Osbourne, who led Black Sabbath and became the godfather of heavy metal, dies at 76

By MARK KENNEDY
Jul 22, 2025 1:26 pm - Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath, who became the throaty, growling voice — and drug-and-alcohol ravaged id —...
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, ‘Cosby Show’ actor, dies at 54 in Costa Rica drowning

Associated Press
Jul 21, 2025 1:25 pm - SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who as teenage son Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” was central to a cultural phenomenon that helped define the 1980s, died...
‘A lasting symbol of strength for women’: Old friend shares memories of Connie Francis

By Briana Iordan
Jul 17, 2025 5:30 pm - Ron Onesti grew up listening to Connie Francis and became friends with the iconic pop singer after persuading her to play his St. Charles theater. “I’m an old soul, and her music not only represented the era, but also represented the strength of a woman in a man’s world at that time,” Onesti said.
Star-crossed singer Connie Francis, whose hits included 'Pretty Little Baby,' dead at 87

By BOB THOMAS
Jul 17, 2025 8:01 am - Connie Francis, the wholesome pop star of the 1950s and 1960s whose hits include “Pretty Little Baby” and who would later serve as an ironic title for a personal life filled with heartbreak and tragedy, has died at age 87.
David Gergen, consummate political insider, dies at 83

By Adam Bernstein
Jul 11, 2025 9:51 pm - David R. Gergen, who helped craft and protect the image of four presidents as a senior White House communications adviser and who traveled the consummate political inside...
Des Plaines mom, sons die during Mexican vacation

By Russell Lissau
Jul 07, 2025 12:42 pm - A memorial service will be held Saturday for three members of a Des Plaines family who died last week while vacationing in Mexico.
Michael Madsen, 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Kill Bill' star, dies at 66

By ANDREW DALTON
Jul 03, 2025 1:07 pm - Michael Madsen, whose menacing characters in “Reservoir Dogs” and “Kill Bill” made him a standout in Quentin Tarantino’s films, has died. He was 66.

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