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‘Made people feel loved’: Wife, friends remember McHenry County officer, Huntley youth baseball coach

By Amanda Marrazzo
Feb 21, 2025 2:05 pm - An Algonquin family man who enjoyed country music concerts, coached hundreds of Huntley-area youth baseball players and was a longtime McHenry County corrections officer has died.
Jerry 'Ice Man' Butler, soul singer whose hits included 'Only the Strong Survive,' dies at 85

By HILLEL ITALIE
Feb 21, 2025 12:57 pm - Jerry Butler, a premier soul singer of the 1960s and after whose rich, intimate baritone graced such hits as "For Your Precious Love," "Only the Strong Survive" and "Make It Easy On Yourself," has died at age 85.
‘A good man’: Services set for former Libertyville police Chief Dan McCormick

By Mick Zawislak
Feb 19, 2025 7:52 pm - As a police officer, Dan McCormick sometimes dealt with the worst elements in town. But you would never know it, say those who knew him. McCormick died Saturday. He was 90.
Chicago Bears owner, matriarch Virginia Halas McCaskey dies at 102

By Sean Hammond
Feb 06, 2025 11:46 am - Bears owner and matriarch Virginia Halas McCaskey died Thursday at the age of 102, the Bears announced in a news release Thursday morning.
‘It was never a job for him’: Longtime Mount Prospect florist dies at 97

By Steve Zalusky
Jan 30, 2025 12:31 pm - Harold Busse, who turned Busse’s Flowers into a Mount Prospect institution, has died at 97.
Former Des Plaines Fire Chief David Clark dies at 86

By Russell Lissau
Jan 14, 2025 6:27 pm - Des Plaines firefighters will honor former Chief David Clark with a bell-ringing ceremony Wednesday before a funeral Mass the next morning.
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.

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