Obituaries
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Longtime Palatine High coach diesDec 31, 2010 12:00 am - Palatine High School has lost one of its “all-time greats.” Joe Johnson, who coached the school's track and cross country teams for more than 30 years, used that term li...
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Woman who said she was 'Rosie' in WWII poster diesDec 29, 2010 10:00 pm - LANSING, Mich. — When a photographer snapped Geraldine Doyle's picture in an Ann Arbor factory during World War II, the 17-year-old had no idea she would inspire others ...
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Real-life member of 'Sound of Music' family diesDec 28, 2010 10:00 pm - TOWSON, Md. — A longtime friend says a woman whose family inspired the movie "The Sound of Music" has died. Agathe von Trapp was 97. Mary Louise Kane said Wednesday that...
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Veteran photographer, firefighter Jack Putignano diesDec 27, 2010 10:00 pm - A veteran news photographer, whose images of major fires and accident scenes turned up in suburban newspapers, WGN-TV, and even national media outlets, has died. Jack P...
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Architect of airline deregulation dies at 93Dec 27, 2010 10:00 pm - ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Alfred E. Kahn, who presided over the historic deregulation of the airline industry during the Carter administration, paving the way for JetBlue and o...
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HE Park District's Triphahn succumbs to cancerDec 21, 2010 10:00 pm - A longtime Hoffman Estates Park District commissioner, who worked at building partnerships as much as he did parks and recreation facilities, passed away on Tuesday. Sco...
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Former Daily Herald reporter diesDec 19, 2010 10:00 pm - Carmen Greco Jr., a popular Daily Herald reporter who covered a variety of West suburban communities from the paper's DuPage County bureau, has died. Greco died Sunday o...
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Northwest Community Hospital 'visionary' diesDec 15, 2010 10:00 pm - One of the longest-serving board members of Northwest Community Hospital, who helped shaped the campus during its years of greatest expansion, has died. Robert DiVall se...
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Namesake of Rakow Road diesDec 11, 2010 10:00 pm - The next time you shave a few minutes off your evening commute by taking Rakow Road, thank James R. Rakow. Rakow, the namesake of the road that serves as a shortcut betw...
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NU star also played for Lombardi in Green BayDec 09, 2010 10:00 pm - Andy Cvercko holds a distinction in Northwestern University lore: He was the first player to be named an All-American and Academic All-American in the same year. Mr. Cve...