Obituaries
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‘A trailblazer who broke barriers’: Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough diesApr 07, 2024 7:34 pm - Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough, who was recently hospitalized for a serious medical condition, has died. She was 73. Yarbrough passed away Sunday afternoon, according ...
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Former Wheaton College trustee, Christianity Today editor rememberedApr 04, 2024 6:50 pm - V. Gilbert Beers and his wife were traveling the English countryside with a fellow Wheaton College graduate when they all stopped for lunch. Beers soon found himself prea...
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Mount Prospect Fire Department mourning loss of 29-year veteranApr 03, 2024 12:52 pm - Mount Prospect fire Lt. Timothy S. Evans, a 29-year department veteran, died Saturday, after a nine-month battle with cancer. Evans, 60, began his career as a firefighter...
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Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman remembered as 'mensch' who bridged political divides
Mar 29, 2024 12:44 pm - STAMFORD, Conn. — Former Vice President Al Gore and other politician dignitaries remembered the late Joe Lieberman Friday as a “mensch” who both bridged partisan politica...
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Louis Gossett Jr., 1st Black man to win supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87
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Wheeling remembers farmer, former trustee Mike HorcherMar 22, 2024 7:45 pm - A former Wheeling trustee and patriarch of a local farming family has died. Mike Horcher — father of current Wheeling Village President Pat Horcher — died March 16. He wa...
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‘Schaumburg has lost a legend’: Eight-term mayor Al Larson dies at 85Mar 20, 2024 6:34 pm - Former Schaumburg Mayor Al Larson, a visionary leader who guided the community for more than four decades as it grew into the second largest economic hub in Illinois, die...
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Mount Prospect Scouting leader remembered for commitment to youthMar 13, 2024 11:38 am - Bob Heuser was the epitome of a good Scout.The Mount Prospect resident, who died Jan. 29 at age 76 after a long illness, devoted more than half a century to Scouting, including about four decades with Boy Scouts of America Troop 23, a group he led as Scoutmaster for 14 years.
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Bobbie Saverino, ‘the first lady of Carol Stream,’ diesMar 08, 2024 8:49 pm - Roberta “Bobbie” Saverino, often called “the first lady of Carol Stream,” has died. Saverino, 80, the wife of Carol Stream Mayor Frank Saverino Sr., died Wednesday, March...
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Antioch artist Dennis Downes, Trail Marker Tree sculptor, diesMar 01, 2024 1:31 pm - “I was just getting to like me,” said Antioch artist and historian Dennis Downes during a 2021 interview with the Daily Herald, while addressing his 2016 Stage 4 colon ca...