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Paul Saletnik, who helped save historic Des Plaines Theatre, dies at 74

By Russell Lissau
Jan 13, 2025 9:09 pm - A funeral Mass will be said Wednesday for a Des Plaines’ planning and zoning board member and community volunteer who worked to save the historic Des Plaines Theatre.
Charles Person, youngest of the Freedom Riders, dies at 82

By Harrison Smith
Jan 11, 2025 5:23 pm - Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders, who were battered, bloodied and nearly killed as they traveled across the South in 1961, helping the civil...
Peter Yarrow of folk-music trio Peter, Paul and Mary dies at 86

By JOHN ROGERS
Jan 07, 2025 11:40 am - Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war, has died. He was 86.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader known for fiery rhetoric against immigration, dies at 96

By THOMAS ADAMSON, SYLVIE CORBET and ELAINE GANLEY
Jan 07, 2025 7:31 am - Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread condemnation, has died. He was 96.
Wayne Osmond, singer and guitarist for The Osmonds, is dead at 73

Jan 02, 2025 6:20 pm - Wayne Osmond, a singer, guitarist and founding member of the million-selling family act The Osmonds, who were known for such 1970s teen hits as “One Bad Apple,” “Yo-Yo” and “Down By the Lazy River,” has died. He was 73.
Founder of Elgin’s Laird Funeral Home to be laid to rest this week

By Rick West
Dec 31, 2024 1:25 pm - Services will be held this week for Donald Laird, founder of Laird Funeral Home in Elgin. Laird died at the age of 93 in his home on Dec. 23.
Former CNN anchor Aaron Brown, who helped viewers through the Sept. 11 attacks, has died

By JIM SALTER and R.J. RICO
Dec 31, 2024 12:09 pm - Aaron Brown, a veteran television news anchor whose steady hand helped guide CNN viewers through the unfolding tragedy of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has died.
‘The greatest former president’: Suburban admirers reflect on Carter’s legacy

By Russell Lissau
Dec 30, 2024 10:42 am - Chicago-area admirers of Jimmy Carter are paying tribute to the former president and humanitarian, who died Sunday.
Linda Lavin, Tony-winning Broadway actor who starred in the sitcom ‘Alice,’ dies at 87

By MARK KENNEDY
Dec 30, 2024 8:37 am - Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working-class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 87.
Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100

By BILL BARROW
Dec 29, 2024 3:38 pm - Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old.

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