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Developer, attorney Thelin left lasting mark on Aurora and Batavia

By Steve Zalusky
Dec 19, 2021 12:00 am - Cal Thelin left his stamp on the communities of Aurora and Batavia as an attorney, a developer and a volunteer. The former Aurora city attorney assisted in the formation...
UTFO's Kangol Kid dies after battle with cancer at 55

By Jonathan Landrum
Dec 18, 2021 6:00 am - Kangol Kid, a member of the legendary hip-hop group UTFO, has died after a battle with colon cancer. He was 55. The family of Kangol Kid - whose real name is Shaun Shill...
Hollywood bard, muse and reveler Eve Babitz dies at 78

By HILLEL ITALIE
Dec 18, 2021 6:00 am - Eve Babitz, the Hollywood bard, muse and reveler who with warmth and candor chronicled the excesses of her native world in the 1960s and 1970s and became a cult figure t...
Ken Kragen, who helped organize 'We Are the World,' dies

The Associated Press
Dec 17, 2021 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Ken Kragen, a top entertainment producer, manager and philanthropist who turned to such clients as Lionel Richie and Kenny Rogers in helping to organize ...
Former Winfield trustee remembered for his love of local politics

By Scott C. Morgan
Dec 17, 2021 12:00 am - Former Winfield village trustee and community newspaper publisher Stan Zegel is being remembered for his love of local politics. Zegel, 77, died on Wednesday, Dec. 15. L...
Kathy Flores, women's rugby legend as player and coach, dies

By THALIA BEATY
Dec 15, 2021 6:00 am - Kathy Flores, the legendary rugby player, coach and leader of the women's sport in the U.S. who touched every generation of players and coaches for more than 40 years, h...
bell hooks, groundbreaking feminist thinker, dies at 69

By HILLEL ITALIE
Dec 15, 2021 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - bell hooks, the groundbreaking author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics and politics intertwined helped shape acad...
Sleeman remembered for his life of service in Elgin

By Rick West
Dec 14, 2021 12:00 am - About 100 people attended a Tuesday morning visitation and funeral service to say goodbye to a man who led a "life of service" in Elgin. Donald J. Sleeman died Dec. 7 at...
Anne Rice, who breathed new life into vampires, dies at 80

By JAKE COYLE
Dec 13, 2021 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Anne Rice, the novelist whose lush, best-selling gothic tales, including 'œInterview With the Vampire,'ť reinvented the blood-drinking immortals as tragi...
Former White Sox, Orioles GM Roland Hemond dies at age 92

By NOAH TRISTER
Dec 13, 2021 6:00 am - Roland Hemond, whose 70-year career in baseball included three Executive of the Year awards as general manager of the Chicago White Sox and Baltimore Orioles, died Sunda...

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