Marjorie Silverman, hotel concierge, dies at 76
Marjorie Silverman, the first woman and first American to serve as president of the Paris-based Les Clefs d'Or International, a concierge organization in more than 50 countries, began her career...
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Lorri Kovitz, TV news video producer, dies at 60
Lorri Kovitz, an award-winning videotape editor for WBBM-Ch. 2 who for more than two decades worked closely with top local talent on news and investigative stories, made significant changes in...
Thomas Fitzgerald, former Illinois Supreme Court chief justice, dies at 74
Thomas R. Fitzgerald, who was put in charge of cleaning up traffic court in the wake of the Operation Greylord scandal and, as chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court,...
Beverly Savel, expert weaver and shop owner, dies at 76
Beverly Savel, the daughter of a talented seamstress and tatter, or lace maker, began taking weaving classes at the Graue Mill and Museum in Oak Brook and quickly proved a...
Charles Pressman, Chicago defense attorney, dies at 92
Chicago attorney Charles Pressman was "an indefatigable champion of the little guy," colleagues said. "He was a credit to the bar," said Abner Mikva, a former classmate of Pressman's at...
Elena Sandoval O’Connell, nun who became teacher, dies at 79
Elena Sandoval O'Connell, a former nun who taught children in Bolivia as a missionary, became an award-winning Chicago Public Schools teacher and served on a CPS executive committee on school...
Joni Ishida, ran Japanese restaurant in Chicago, dies at 84
Joni Ishida learned to cook from her mother and worked in the restaurant industry in her native Japan before coming to Chicago. One of her first forays into the Chicago...
Sam Ozaki, World War II veteran and CPS principal, dies at 90
Sam Ozaki, the first Asian-American principal in the Chicago Public Schools, was part of a national effort during the 1980s to get reparations to the more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans who...
LeRoy Tolman, who drew maps for globe-maker, dies at 84
Having his name on millions of globes sold throughout the world brought LeRoy M. Tolman pride of ownership and a deep sense of responsibility. It also meant most complaints came...
George W. Reed, Argonne chemist who worked on Manhattan Project, dies at 94
George W. Reed Jr., a longtime research chemist at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, had a hand in two of the biggest events of the 20th century...