James W. Ashley: 1923 – 2007
Chicago attorney James W. Ashley was a chairman of the Chicago and national YMCA who also led efforts to rebuild the association's Jerusalem facility, a meeting ground for people of...
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Henry L. Mikolajczyk: 1917 – 2006
Henry L. Mikolajczyk taught architecture at the University of Illinois-Chicago for 40 years and was a sportsman who hunted pheasant in the Midwest and fished for lake trout near the...
John C. Voosen: 1942 – 2006
John C. Voosen, a third-generation Chicago architect who designed many area churches and church renovations, died of a heart attack Friday, Sept. 15, in California, his son-in-law said. Mr. Voosen,...
Seymour Simon: 1915 – 2006
Seymour Simon was a Chicago Democrat with an independent streak who sparred with everyone from Mayor Richard J. Daley to his fellow Illinois Supreme Court justices during a political career...
Damage: $20 billion
(Published Aug. 26, 1992) Hurricane Andrew turned the lower third of Dade County into a stricken landscape of 50,000 homeless citizens running out of water, food and hope. Damage estimates...
TOYOTA PLANS CENTER IN AURORA
Toyota Motor Corp. will build its Midwest headquarters and a major distribution, training and sales center on about 85 acres off the East-West Tollway in Aurora, company and city officials...