Ron Paul, food industry expert, dies at 90
Ron Paul co-founded the Chicago-based food service research and consulting firm Technomic and was a widely recognized expert on food industry trends. “He was an innovator, coining many new restaurant...
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Bill Melton, the 1st Chicago White Sox player to lead the AL in home runs,...
Bill Melton, the first Chicago White Sox player to hit 30 home runs in a season and the first to lead the American League in homers, died Thursday at age 79. The Sox said Melton, who played eight of...
View ArticleJoel Flaum, longtime federal judge in Chicago, dies at 88
Joel Flaum spent almost 50 years on the federal bench in Chicago, including six years as the chief judge on Chicago’s U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. Flaum built a reputation for judicial...
View ArticlePolice believe the gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare’s CEO left NYC on a bus...
NEW YORK — The gunman who killed the CEO of the largest U.S. health insurer likely left New York City on a bus soon after the brazen ambush that has shaken corporate America, police officials said...
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Howard Krane, leader at Kirkland & Ellis and the University of Chicago, dies
Howard Krane helped expand the offerings and guide the Chicago-based law firm of Kirkland & Ellis as it grew into a global powerhouse, and also served for seven years as chair of the University of...
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Barbara O’Rahilly, oversaw growth of Carol Stream Park District, dies
As the Carol Stream Park District’s executive director from 1980 to 1995, Barbara O’Rahilly worked to increase recreational offerings to keep up with the west suburb’s rapid growth. A Carol Stream...
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Oak Park Detective Allan Reddins remembered as friend and mentor who was...
Detective Allan Reddins was a rising star in the Oak Park Police Department. The man who close friends called Bear had become a detective after only three years as a patrol officer and was a highly...
View ArticleDavid Perry, UIC professor and expert in urban planning issues, dies
David Perry headed the University of Illinois Chicago’s Great Cities Institute for 12 years and was considered an expert on issues including urban and regional economic development, race, politics and...
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Fred Lorenzen, ‘the Elmhurst Express’ and NASCAR Hall of Famer, dies just shy...
Elmhurst native Fred Lorenzen got his start in auto racing as an 18-year old, racing stock cars at Soldier Field in Chicago in the early 1950s. Success there eventually led to racing stardom in a...
View ArticleRichard Perry, record producer behind ‘You’re So Vain’ and other hits, dies...
Richard Perry, a hitmaking record producer with a flair for both standards and contemporary sounds whose many successes included Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” Rod Stewart’s “The Great American...
View Article‘Baby Driver’ actor Hudson Meek, 16, dies in a fall from a moving vehicle
VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. — Teenage actor Hudson Meek has died after he fell out of a moving vehicle in Alabama, authorities said. Meek, 16, was hurt on Dec. 19 while on a street in Vestavia Hills, a suburb...
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G. Joseph Cosenza, co-founder of Inland Real Estate Group, ‘consummate...
G. Joseph Cosenza got together with two college fraternity brothers and a fellow schoolteacher in the 1960s to form Oak Brook-based Inland Real Estate Group, which they grew from a single three-flat...
View ArticleOlivia Hussey, star of the 1968 film ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ dies at 73
LONDON — Olivia Hussey, the actor who starred as a teenage Juliet in the 1968 film “Romeo and Juliet,” has died, her family said on social media Saturday. She was 73. Hussey died on Friday, “peacefully...
View ArticleTrailblazing model Dayle Haddon dies from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning
NEW HOPE, Pa. — Dayle Haddon, an actor, activist and trailblazing former “Sports Illustrated” model who pushed back against age discrimination by reentering the industry as a widow, has died in a...
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Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100
ATLANTA — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after...
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Photos: Former President Jimmy Carter through the years
Former President and humanitarian Jimmy Carter dies at the age of 100. Jimmy Carter, who was a peanut farmer in Georgia, won his presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War. The...
View ArticleCharles Shyer, ‘Father of the Bride’ and ‘Baby Boom’ filmmaker, dies at 83
Charles Shyer, the Oscar-nominated writer and filmmaker known for classic comedies like “Private Benjamin,” “Baby Boom” and “Father of the Bride” that he made alongside Nancy Meyers, has died. He was...
View ArticleLinda Lavin, Tony-winning Broadway actor who starred in the sitcom ‘Alice,’...
NEW YORK — Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 87. Lavin died in Los Angeles on...
View ArticleFormer CNN anchor Aaron Brown, who helped viewers through the Sept. 11...
Aaron Brown, a veteran television news anchor whose steady hand helped guide CNN viewers through the unfolding tragedy of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, has died. Brown died Sunday of pneumonia in...
View ArticleWayne Osmond, singer and guitarist for The Osmonds, dies at 73
NEW YORK — Wayne Osmond, a singer, guitarist and founding member of the million-selling family act The Osmonds, who were known for such 1970s teen hits as “One Bad Apple,” “Yo-Yo” and “Down By the Lazy...
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