Geraldine Gay, 1931-2010: Pianist in gospel trio Gay Sisters
Geraldine Gay's jazz-steeped piano carried her from tiny South Side churches to the Apollo Theater in Harlem and propelled the Gay Sisters gospel trio to a string of hits, including...
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Dr. Hyman Hirshfield, 1921-2010
Dr. Hyman Hirshfield, a physician with a flair for poetry, was a lifelong peace and social justice activist who treated bloodied demonstrators during the 1968 Democratic Party convention and volunteered...
Margaret Archambault: Member of USO, Kennedy Center boards
Margaret Archambault, whose late husband ran Stewart-Warner Corp., was active with a number of civic and charitable organizations and in 1987 received a presidential appointment to the board of the...
Thomas S. Fuller, 1934-2010: Former water district chief convicted in corruption probe
Thomas S. Fuller held several state and local political posts and was president of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago before being brought down by the federal Operation...
Glenbrook South booster dead at 87
Carolyn Glass embodied school spirit for nearly 40 years at Glenbrook South High School, where generations of students knew her as "Mama." She joined the school's staff in middle age...
Natalie Heineman, 1913-2010, longtime child welfare leader
Natalie Heineman guided local and national children's welfare organizations with a firm conviction that programs and institutions should be adapted to fit the unique needs of every child. A nationally...
Northwestern University law professor Ian Macneil
Ian R. Macneil, who helped expand concepts of how relationships affect contracts, held an endowed professorship at Northwestern University's law school and was chief of a clan in his ancestral...
Teen killed in Amtrak accident
Counselors were on hand Saturday at Lake Forest Academy for students mourning the loss of a classmate who was struck by an Amtrak train Friday evening. A female student also...
JOSE CARLOS GOMEZ: 1933-2009
Jose Carlos Gomez owned several Spanish-language movie theaters in Chicago, where Mexican-American audiences flocked to see homeland stars like Cantinflas, Ignacio Lopez Tarso and Antonio Aguilar. A leader in the...
CALVIN ‘RUSTY’ GATES JR.: 1955-2009
Calvin "Rusty" Gates Jr. ran a popular lodge on a stretch of the Au Sable River in northern Michigan known as the "Holy Waters," and he was the leading guardian...