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Former Chicago Bears QB Bob Avellini, who helped the team make the playoffs...
Bob Avellini, who quarterbacked the Chicago Bears through some of the greatest seasons of Walter Payton’s career and helped the team make the playoffs in 1977, has died. He was 70. A team official on...
View ArticleActor Bernard Hill, of ‘Titanic’ and ‘Lord of the Rings,’ has died at 79
Actor Bernard Hill, who delivered a rousing cry before leading his people into battle in “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” and went down with the ship as the captain in “Titanic,” has...
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Longtime Oak Forest volunteer’s name lives on at animal agency where she helped
Not one to be put off by a hissing kitten, Laura Gray had a knack for calming even the feistiest felines at the Oak Forest Animal Control & Care Center. “She would just snuggle with them, pull them...
View ArticleSteve Albini, legendary Chicago music producer for Nirvana and the Pixies,...
Steve Albini, an alternative rock pioneer and legendary producer who shaped the musical landscape through his work with Nirvana, the Pixies, PJ Harvey and more, has died. He was 61. Brian Fox, an...
View ArticleChristopher Crane, low-key CEO who expanded size of ComEd parent Exelon, dies
Christopher Crane was the CEO and president of Commonwealth Edison parent company Exelon from 2012 until 2022, a tenure during which he oversaw acquisitions that made Chicago-based firm the nation’s...
View ArticleToday in History: Bob Marley dies at 36
Today is Friday, May 11, the 132nd day of 2024. There are 234 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 11, 1981, legendary reggae artist Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age 36...
View ArticleDr. Cyril Wecht, celebrity pathologist who argued more than 1 shooter killed...
PITTSBURGH — Dr. Cyril Wecht, a pathologist and attorney whose biting cynicism and controversial positions on high-profile deaths such as President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination caught the...
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In memoriam: Musician Stuart Rosenberg turned the world from ‘black and white...
In an area rich with musical talents and inspiring people, few combined those qualities as compellingly as did Stuart J. Rosenberg, a man of Promethean skills and accomplishments, and let us not forget...
View ArticleAlice Munro, Nobel literature winner revered as short story master, dead at 92
Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian literary giant who became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history’s most honored short story writers, has died at age 92. A...
View ArticleDavid Sanborn, Grammy-winning saxophonist who played on hundreds of albums,...
NEW YORK— David Sanborn, the Grammy-winning saxophonist who played lively solos on such hits as David Bowie’s “Young Americans” and James Taylor’s “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)” and enjoyed his...
View ArticleChicago music legend Stuart J. Rosenberg dies at age 68
Whether performing music, hosting radio programs, producing events or helping to create a concert space, Stuart J. Rosenberg charted his own course, shunning the mundane as he sought to expose...
View ArticleIvan Boesky, stock trader convicted in insider trading scandal, dead at 87
Ivan F. Boesky, the flamboyant stock trader whose cooperation with the government cracked open one of the largest insider trading scandals in the history of Wall Street, has died at the age of 87. A...
View ArticleBen Weese, architect and preservationist who helped save Glessner House, dies...
Ben Weese was an architect and historic preservationist who was part of the “Chicago Seven” architectural group, an informal coterie of Chicago architects who banded together to reject the rigid...
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Community mourns Englewood’s Raydell Lacey, founder of nonprofit Not Before...
Chicago’s Englewood community is remembering the life of Raydell Lacey, who died from cancer last month at age 68. Lacey had spent years trying to prevent others from experiencing the trauma and grief...
View ArticleDocumentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who skewered fast food industry, dies...
NEW YORK — Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee whose most famous work skewered American food and diets and who notably ate only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers...
View ArticleGrayson Murray dies at age 30 a day after withdrawing from Colonial, PGA Tour...
Two-time PGA Tour winner Grayson Murray died Saturday morning at age 30, one day after he withdrew from the Charles Schwab Cup Challenge at Colonial. There were no immediate details on the...
View ArticleRichard M. Sherman, who fueled Disney charm in ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘It’s a...
NEW YORK — Richard M. Sherman, one half of the prolific, award-winning pair of brothers who helped form millions of childhoods by penning the instantly memorable songs for “Mary Poppins,” “The Jungle...
View ArticleAlbert Ruddy, Oscar-winning producer of ‘The Godfather’ and ‘Million Dollar...
NEW YORK — Albert S. Ruddy, a colorful, Canadian-born producer and writer who won Oscars for “The Godfather” and “Million Dollar Baby,” developed the raucous prison-sports comedy “The Longest Yard” and...
View ArticleFormer ‘General Hospital’ actor Johnny Wactor killed in downtown Los Angeles...
LOS ANGELES — Former “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor was shot and killed when he interrupted thieves stealing the catalytic converter from his car in Los Angeles, his family said Sunday. The...
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Charles Pounian, who ran city Personnel Department under Mayor Richard J....
Charles Pounian ran the city of Chicago’s Personnel Department under Mayor Richard J. Daley, where he stood out in an era when patronage jobs dominated the City Hall payroll. “He was one of the unique...
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