James Clark, former Oak Brook fire chief, dies at 86
James Clark, former Oak Brook fire official who died at 86, 'had everybody's respect.' As chief of the Oak Brook Fire Department and president of the Illinois Fire Chiefs Association...
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Dr. Marshall Blankenship, respected Chicago dermatologist, dies at 81
Dr. Marshall Blankenship welcomed difficult cases, both in his career as a longtime dermatologist and in his recreational reading as a Sherlock Holmes aficionado. When he joined the Army in...
Michael Koehler, Deerfield teacher and Jim Thorpe’s grandson, dies at 76
Michael D. Koehler was the grandson of one of America's greatest athletes, Jim Thorpe, and as a high school football star faced the inevitable comparisons. As an All-American fullback for...
Herman Troppe, accordion player, dies at 85
Whether he was performing in orchestra pits or on a punk rock track, accordionist Herman Troppe never missed a beat. The Joliet native won the baiduhai International Accordion Competition...
Christy Stigailo, butterfly expert at Glen Ellyn library, dies at 70
Christy Stigailo began raising monarch butterflies in her home — starting with the hunt for eggs on the back of milkweed leaves and following the creatures through their life cycle...
James Fay, who ran family-owned baking equipment company, dies at 90
James Fay succeeded his father as president of the Joliet-based Champion Machinery Co. in 1962. Two decades later, the baking equipment and systems manufacturer was the first American firm to...
Ilga Vitolins, University of Chicago library cataloger, dies at 77
llga Vitolins had a single mission while working in the cataloging department at the University of Chicago Library for more than four decades: making sure that scholars from around the...
Rhonda Burke, teacher to hearing impaired, dies
While walking her dog in a park near O'Hare International Airport years ago, Rhonda Burke noticed a group of girls lying on their stomachs in the grass, their heads turned...
Donald Munger, ex-Chicago cop a fixture on O’Hare detail, dies at 90
Donald Munger spent almost half of his 33-year Chicago police career in what he often said was "the best job he ever had" — commanding lieutenant of the O'Hare International...
Dr. Elizabeth Chen, Chinese immigrant delivered thousands of babies, dies
Dr. Elizabeth Chen left China in 1948 to escape communism and pursue a career in medicine in the United States. With a medical diploma from a Chinese university, Dr. Chen...