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Charles Osgood, CBS host on TV and radio and network’s poet-in-residence, dies at 91

By MARK KENNEDY
Jan 24, 2024 6:43 am - Charles Osgood, a five-time Emmy Award-winning journalist who anchored “CBS Sunday Morning” for more than two decades, hosted the long-running radio program “The Osgood F...
‘It’s a real tragedy’: Suburban CEO dies during anniversary celebration in India

By Eric Peterson
Jan 22, 2024 1:56 pm - The founder and CEO of a Hoffman Estates-based international software firm was killed late last week in an accident at an event in India celebrating the company’s 25th an...
Dexter Scott King, son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., dies of cancer at 62

Jan 22, 2024 1:15 pm - ATLANTA — Dexter Scott King, the younger son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, died Monday after battling prostate cancer. The King Center in At...
Elgin native, Pulitzer Prize-winning TV critic Shales dead at 79

By Barbara Vitello
Jan 17, 2024 6:10 pm - Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic Tom Shales, an Elgin native whose witty, incisive observations inspired both respect and fear, according to The New York Times, d...
Former Lake County Board member remembered

By Katlyn Smith
Dec 31, 2023 12:34 pm - Charles “Chuck” Bartels won his first elected office as a Lake County Board member only two years after he suffered a life-altering spinal cord injury. “He was not going ...
British actor Tom Wilkinson, known for 'The Full Monty' and 'Michael Clayton', dies at 75

Associated Press
Dec 30, 2023 1:16 pm - LONDON — Tom Wilkinson, the Oscar-nominated British actor known for his roles in “The Full Monty," “Michael Clayton” and “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” has died, his f...
Remembering those we've lost: Notable suburbanites who died in 2023

By Madhu Krishnamurthy
Dec 30, 2023 5:30 am - Among the notable personalities we've lost from the suburbs this year are elected officials, humanitarians, a best-selling author and other standouts who helped shape the...
The year in review: Influential people who died in 2023

By BERNARD McGHEE
Dec 29, 2023 9:32 am - Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from being an ex-con and hot dog vendor to winning lucrative Kremlin contracts and heading a formidable mercenary army. But it all came to a sudden...
'He loved helping others': Wauconda High mourning teacher killed in weekend crash

By Russell Lissau
Dec 13, 2023 1:04 pm - The Wauconda High School community is mourning a longtime teacher killed in a weekend car crash. Bob Gillen, 53, of Palatine, had been on staff at Wauconda High since 19...
Doctor and self-exiled activist Gao Yaojie who exposed the AIDS epidemic in rural China dies at 95

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press
Dec 11, 2023 12:00 am - Renowned Chinese doctor and activist Gao Yaojie who exposed the AIDS virus epidemic in rural China in the 1990s died Sunday at the age of 95 at her home in the United St...

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