Trevor Jensen

Thaddeus S. "Ted" Lechowicz, who rode the Northwest Side's large Polish vote to seats in both houses of the state General Assembly before serving a 12-year stretch on the Cook...

Jack Hoffman bought 300 acres of slightly rolling farmland northwest of Chicago in 1953 and covered it with three-bedroom ranch-style houses, seeding the suburb that now bears his name, Hoffman...

Marion D. Pais, a music teacher at several schools in Illinois and Indiana, cultivated hundreds of "old garden" roses in his yard and started a chapter of the American Rose...

Larry McKeon polished relations between Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago's gay and lesbian community in the early 1990s before becoming the first openly gay member of the Illinois General Assembly,...

African-American attorneys got few if any offers from white-shoe law firms in 1951, the year R. Eugene Pincham graduated from Northwestern University's law school. The Chicago Bar Association had been...

Veteran Democratic political operative Patrick Botterman guided candidates for offices from alderman to Congress in a career driven by the adrenaline of hard-fought campaigns and dedicated, more often than not,...

Henry J. Hyde, a 32-year veteran of the House of Representatives who led the Republican effort to impeach President Bill Clinton and crafted an anti-abortion amendment with a lasting national...

Bass-baritone Andrew Foldi, whose more than 40-year association with Lyric Opera of Chicago began in the company's inaugural year, carved out a distinguished career singing comic and dramatic roles with...

Retired Northwestern University medical school professor Albert B. Gerbie was a leader in the field of obstetrics and gynecology whose research helped make amniocentesis an accepted procedure for pregnant women....

To hockey fans, Bill Wirtz will be remembered as "Dollar Bill," the tightfisted owner of the Blackhawks who kept home games off TV and let some of the team's biggest...