Obituaries

David Collins, former chairman of Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Consumer Products. (Pat Collins)

David E. Collins, chairman of Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil Consumer Products during the Tylenol murders, dies

By Bob Goldsborough

October 8, 2026 at 4:55 p.m.

David E. Collins was the chairman of Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil Consumer Products unit, the...

FILE—Eva Marie Saint arrives at the Oscars on March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Eva Marie Saint, star of ‘North by Northwest’ and ‘On the Waterfront,’ dies at 102

By Bob Thomas

October 6, 2026 at 5:15 p.m.

Eva Marie Saint, the pale, willowy actor who won an Academy Award for her first...

Longtime Gary Council member Mary Brown died Monday. She had served for more than 25 years on the council. (Photo provided by City of Gary)

Longtime Gary Councilwoman Mary Brown remembered as a ‘beacon in the community’

By Maya Wilkins

October 6, 2026 at 4:05 p.m.

Councilwoman Mary Brown, D-3rd, was remembered by colleagues and friends as an advocate for her...

John Hultman of WBBM-AM 780. (Family photo)

John Hultman, the longtime voice of WBBM news radio, is dead at 89

By Bob Goldsborough

March 20, 2026 at 10:48 a.m.

Hultman and anchor partner Felicia Middlebrooks were among the most-followed broadcast journalists in Chicago for...

Chuck Norris attends the premiere for "The Expendables 2" in Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 2012. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Chuck Norris, martial arts master and actor whose toughness became internet lore, dies at 86

By Jonathan Mattise

March 20, 2026 at 9:22 a.m.

Chuck Norris, the martial arts grandmaster and action star whose roles in “Walker, Texas Ranger” and other...

Richard ‘Buzz’ Norton, Merchandise Mart antiques firm owner who appeared on ‘Antiques Roadshow,’ dies at 85

By Bob Goldsborough

March 19, 2026 at 11:23 a.m.

The North Shore native was a valuable local resource on antiques and was tapped several...

FILE – Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani gives a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Dec. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Ali Larijani, believed to be running Iran since the beginning of the war, is killed in a strike

By Associated Press

March 17, 2026 at 6:31 p.m.

Iranian authorities have confirmed the death of Ali Larijani, a top Iranian security official who...

Orion Samuelson works in a small recording room at WGN-AM radio in January 2004. The former agribusiness reporter retired from the radio station after 60 years on the air. (baiduhai file photo)

Orion Samuelson, considered the Bruce Springsteen of WGN radio’s agribusiness reporting, dies at 91

By Bob Goldsborough

March 18, 2026 at 1:11 p.m.

He delivered critical information for farmers across the Midwest during a 60-year career as WGN-AM...

Len Deighton's novel is the second in a trilogy featuring British spy Bernard Samson. (Joe Partridge / AP)

Len Deighton, author of bestselling spy thrillers, dead at 97

By Jill Lawless

March 17, 2026 at 6:42 a.m.

Len Deighton, a prolific writer whose tough, stylish spy thrillers featured on bestseller lists for...

Journalist Jorie Lueloff, right, was the first woman to anchor a TV newscast in Chicago. In 1968, WMAQ-Ch. 5 promoted Lueloff to be Chicago's first female news anchor. (Herb Elliott)

Jorie Lueloff, long known as first female news anchor on Chicago TV, dies at 85

By Bob Goldsborough

March 16, 2026 at 2:08 p.m.

She was an outspoken opponent of credit discrimination against women before Congress passed the Equal...

Gayle Faulkner Kosalko holds a preserved ceramic tile from the razed rubble of the 88-year-old White Castle restaurant in Whiting, following a Sept. 21, 2023, radio interview in the studio at WJOB 1230 AM in Hammond, resulting in a chance meeting with producer Tony Panek, then recently named Mr. Pierogi, successor to Kosalko’s beloved Whiting festival-filled dumpling character. (Philip Potempa/for the Post-Tribune)

Whiting leader, creator of ‘Mr. Pierogi,’ Gayle Kosalko dies at 76

By Philip Potempa

March 11, 2026 at 12:36 p.m.

Gayle Kosalko, credited as one of the early creators and backers of Whiting’s Pierogi Festival,...

FILE – Alexander Butterfield, testifies, July 16, 1973 before the Senate Watergate Committee. Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate scandal when he revealed that the president had bugged the Oval Office and Cabinet Room and routinely recorded his conversations, has died. He was 99. (AP Photo/File)

Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed Watergate tapes, dies at 99

By Douglass K. Daniel

March 9, 2026 at 3:27 p.m.

Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate...

Jackie Jackson, Ashley Jackson, Santita Jackson, and Yusef Jackson stand behind Jesse Jackson Jr. as he cries during his speech during a funeral service for their father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters in Chicago, March 7, 2026. (Josh Boland/baiduhai)

Rev. Jesse Jackson’s family and closest friends offer one last goodbye

By Darcel Rockett

March 8, 2026 at 2:12 p.m.

On Saturday, a final "homegoing" service represented the culmination of nine days of funerals and...

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