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Obituaries

Jim Brown, all-time NFL great and social activist, dead at 87

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer
May 19, 2023 1:00 am - CLEVELAND - Jim Brown was virtually unstoppable in every arena. Whether on the field, as a Hollywood film hero or civil rights advocate, Brown was a force. One of the gr...
Sam Zell, billionaire Chicago real estate investor, dies

By The Associated Press
May 18, 2023 1:00 am - Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate magnate who earned a multibillion-dollar fortune and a reputation as "the grave dancer" for his ability to revive moribund properties die...
Former South Barrington Trustee Rosanne Plencner has died

By Russell Lissau
May 02, 2023 1:00 am - A former South Barrington trustee who served during parts of three decades has died. Rosanne Therese Plencner, 87, passed April 27 in Florida, where she had lived since ...
Folk singer Gordon Lightfoot dies at 84

May 01, 2023 1:00 am - TORONTO - Gordon Lightfoot, Canada's legendary folk singer-songwriter whose hits including "Early Morning Rain" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" told a tale of C...
Carolyn Bryant Donham, at center of Emmett Till death, dies

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press
Apr 27, 2023 1:00 am - JACKSON, Miss. - The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at her - causing his 1955 lynching in Mississippi, which galvanized a generation of ...
Jerry Springer, politician-turned-TV ringmaster, dies at 79

By DAN SEWELL Associated Press
Apr 27, 2023 1:00 am - CINCINNATI - Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional guests willing to bare all - sometime...
Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer, dies at 96

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer
Apr 25, 2023 1:00 am - NEW YORK - Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience o...
'Dancing With the Stars' judge Len Goodman dies at 78

Associated Press
Apr 24, 2023 1:00 am - LONDON - Len Goodman, a long-serving judge on "Dancing with the Stars" and "Strictly Come Dancing" who helped revive interest in ballroom dancing on both sides of the At...
Hot dogs were in his DNA: Vienna Beef boss Eisenberg dies at 92

By Mitch Dudek Chicago Sun-Times
Apr 20, 2023 1:00 am - James Eisenberg was a champion of the Chicago hot dog. As the head of Vienna Beef, he'd take his late wife Elin to eat at a nice restaurant downtown, but both always sav...
Gacy prosecutor Robert Egan dies at 74

Chicago Sun-Times
Apr 18, 2023 1:00 am - Robert Egan's wife, Tracy, remembers her husband as a gifted storyteller, though she said he rarely spared the gory details, even at the dinner table. After decades work...

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