Kenan Heise

Isidore Brown, 98, a Chicago lawyer for 73 years, served as a master in chancery in Cook County Circuit Court for 42 years, longer than any other person of record...

Robert C. Underwood, 72, chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court from 1969 to 1975, died Wednesday, apparently of a heart attack, in his home in Normal. He had served...

Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago who surprised the city with his election, his survival skills, his reform measures and his political acumen, died Wednesday of a heart...

J. Russell Swanson, 79, whose trademarks were a fat cigar and a quick one-liner, was a Du Page County Board member from 1956 to 1984. He had been sales manager...

Ray F. Robson, 71, founder and chairman of P.B. Service Inc., shippers` agents, was a pioneer in promoting and selling piggyback shipping that utilized truck trailers and railroads. Services for...

It was the beginning of a long and grievous goodbye for the friends, families and co-workers who gathered at a memorial service Monday for the three Chicago-area advertising executives who...

Edwin G. Halperin, 52, a former manufacturer, was also a business leader, an author, a published poet and a community activist. He wrote the book, ''Causes and Effects of Anti-Semitism,''...

Frank Mingo Sr., 70, a retired international representative for the United Auto Workers, was active in community and civil struggles in the 1950s and 1960s in Chicago. His picture was...

Gertrude Wilgus, who was over 100 years old, was a nurse in Jacksonville State Hospital just after the turn of the century and later operated groceries in Andersonville with her...

''We have a little problem,'' is the way Carol Turchan recalls hearing the first news of Friday`s disastrous flooding of the Chicago Historical Society`s basement storage vaults. Along with 50...