Philip Van Reeth Sr., longtime TWA pilot, dies
Philip Van Reeth Sr.'s love affair with aviation began in the 1930s when he was a small child playing outside, his family said. After hearing a loud noise, he turned...
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Hal Baron, adviser to Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, dies at 86
Hal Baron wasn't one to mince words when it came to his principles or his politics, his wife said. "Hal was kind of a direct guy," said Paula, his wife...
Lois Ryan, special education teacher, dies at 85
Lois Ryan became a special education teacher at the local middle school after moving to Lake Bluff more than 50 years ago. An accidental artist who didn't realize she had...
Dr. Ulisse Cucco, started care center for disadvantaged pregnant women, dies
Dr. Ulisse "Lee" Cucco was on call but at home, riding out the last hours of the worst blizzard in the city's recorded history in 1967, when the phone rang....
Clarence ‘Sandy’ Howell, who ran beloved Plentywood Farm restaurant, dies
Clarence "Sandy" Howell was a young boy when his mother, Katharine, bought a ramshackle log cabin, nestled in the woods just east of Illinois Highway 83 in Bensenville and converted...
Lorraine Samluk, longtime school crossing guard, dies at 86
For more than five decades, Lorraine Samluk helped children on bikes and on foot make their way to and from Avondale and Logandale elementary schools in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood....
Ron Englund, Vietnam veteran who found joy in playing Santa, dies at 72
After two years as a combat medic in the Vietnam War, Ron Englund resumed his job as a trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. But life wasn't the same. He...
Mike Haley, an original ‘Bleacher Bum’ beloved by Cubs fans and players, dies
Mike Haley, a lifelong Cubs fan who helped start the Left Field Bleacher Bums, would sometimes challenge future Hall of Fame pitcher Ferguson "Fergie" Jenkins to arm wrestling before a...
William Eisler, engineering specialist at Argonne National Laboratory, dead at 91
In the late 1960s, engineering specialist William Eisler and a colleague at Argonne National Laboratory near Lemont developed a device called the "Nephelostat" to be used in an automated system...
Nadine Beck, ran bookstore with her husband, dies
Six years after opening their first college bookstore in 1955 near Loyola University's Water Tower Campus, Bob and Nadine Beck were busy with their young family when she came up...