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Former Wheeling village president a victim of COVID-19

By Steve Zalusky
Apr 10, 2020 1:00 am - COVID-19 has claimed the life of former Wheeling Village President William Hein, his family announced in a Facebook post Friday night. Hein's passing was confirmed by cu...
Mad magazine illustrator Mort Drucker dies at 91

The Associated Press
Apr 09, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Mort Drucker, the Mad Magazine cartoonist who for decades lovingly spoofed politicians, celebrities and popular culture, died Thursday at 91. Drucker's ...
Civil rights pioneer and face of gay marriage dies at 95

By JANIE HAR
Apr 09, 2020 7:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Gay rights pioneer Phyllis Lyon, who with her longtime partner was among the first same-sex couples to marry in California when it became legal to d...
Barbara Reed Turner, conservationist and member of Long Grove pioneering family, dies at 100

By Bob Susnjara
Apr 09, 2020 1:00 am - Barbara Reed Turner, a member of a Long Grove pioneering family, died at her village home Thursday, according to the town's leaders. She was 100. "Barbara has been a res...
Wauconda Orchards founder lived his 104 years fully

By Mick Zawislak
Apr 09, 2020 1:00 am - Dick Breeden was an Eagle Scout, a corporate executive, a businessman, a Naval Reserve officer, an artist and a history lover. But it was as an apple grower and hands-o...
Czech glass artist Jaroslava Brychtova dies at 95

The Associated Press
Apr 08, 2020 7:00 am - PRAGUE (AP) - Jaroslava Brychtova, a Czech glass artist whose sculptures and other works created together with her late husband Stanislav Libensky won international reco...
Celebrated singer-songwriter John Prine has died at 73

By MICHAEL WARREN
Apr 08, 2020 7:00 am - John Prine, the ingenious singer-songwriter who explored the heartbreaks, indignities and absurdities of everyday life in 'œAngel from Montgomery,'ť 'œSam Stone,'ť 'œHel...
7 Essential tracks from John Prine, folk music's Mark Twain

By JAKE COYLE
Apr 08, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Some people, the songs just come out of them. For nearly half a century, they tumbled out of John Prine like nothing. His songs -- compassionate, funny...
'Full House,' Broadway producer Thomas Miller dies at 79

By LYNN ELBER
Apr 08, 2020 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Thomas L. Miller, who produced a string of hit TV comedies included 'œFull House'ť and 'œPerfect Strangers'ť before beginning a new chapter as a Broad...
Linda Tripp, whose tapes exposed Clinton scandal, dies at 70

Associated Press
Apr 08, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Linda Tripp, whose secretly recorded conversations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky led to the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton, died ...

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