Sue Conway, versatile singer who performed worldwide, dies at 67
Sue Conway, a versatile alto who could belt out everything from blues to gospel, jazz to rock, performed at major music festivals and in halls from the Middle East to...
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Dalia Slenys, led Lithuanian Art Museum in Lemont, dies at 80
Dalia Slenys and her family fled the Soviet occupation of their native Lithuania during the early part of World War II. They lived in a displaced persons camp in Nazi...
Artist opened shop to showcase work of others
Aiming to create a venue for area artists to showcase their work, Ruth Nunley and her sister opened a fine arts shop in downtown Geneva in 1978. It was a...
Tom McCarter, helped foil President Ford assassination attempt, dies
After a Charles Manson disciple failed in her attempt to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975 in Sacramento, it was longtime Lombard resident and then-Secret Service agent Tom McCarter who...
Robert Schuffler, original owner of Robert’s Fish Market on Devon, dies at 97
Robert Schuffler, the original owner of Robert's Fish Market on Devon Avenue in West Rogers Park, was a mensch in every sense of the Yiddish word, according to those who...
Sidney Siegel, songwriter for industrial productions, dies
Two years ago, more than four decades after writing the song "My Bathroom, My Bathroom" for bathroom fixture company American Standard, songwriter and composer Sid Siegel was sitting at home...
Helen Johnson, leader of hostel movement, dies at 96
In 1939, Helen Pomerance Johnson was attending a weeklong cooperative leadership camp in Michigan. One of the participants had stayed at youth hostels in Europe, and when those in the...
Pera Wirszup, former U. of C. lecturer and dorm supervisor, dies at 100
A fixture on the University of Chicago campus for many years as a lecturer and resident master who supervised students in the dormitories, Pera Wirszup always had an open door,...
James Riley, an engineer at Brookfield Zoo, dies at 87
As superintendent of plant engineering, buildings and grounds at Brookfield Zoo during the early 1980s, James Riley was instrumental in the creation of Tropic World — the first fully indoor...
Eric Edstrom, educator who started innovative civics program, dies at 84
As chairman of the social sciences department at Maine West High School in Des Plaines in 1975, Eric Edstrom Jr. worked with the town's city clerk, the late Eleanor Rohrbach,...