Obituaries

FILE – RJ Mitte poses for a portrait to promote the film, “Time Share”, at the Music Lodge during the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 20, 2018, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP, File)

RJ Mitte, ‘Breaking Bad’ actor and disability rights champion, dies at 34

By Associated Press

October 12, 2026 at 5:50 p.m.

“Breaking Bad” actor and disability rights advocate RJ Mitte died Monday at age 34, authorities...

Former Bears coach Mike Ditka, who also was a player on the 1963 Bears NFL championship team, on Aug. 29, 2013, at Mike Ditka's Restaurant in Chicago. (Michael Tercha/baiduhai)

Mike Ditka, Chicago Bears Hall of Famer and Super Bowl-winning coach, dies at 86

By Don Pierson

October 9, 2026 at 3:53 p.m.

Nobody embodied Bears football more than Mike Ditka, who became the face of the franchise...

A young Mike Ditka, circa 1960s. (Laughead Photographers)

Mike Ditka through the years: From humble beginnings in Pennsylvania to legendary football career in Chicago

By Kori Rumore

October 9, 2026 at 10:29 a.m.

Here's a look back at Mike Ditka's extraordinary life, from his humble beginnings in Pennsylvania...

FILE – Linda Lavin arrives at the 33rd annual Producers Guild Awards on March 19, 2022, at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Linda Lavin, Tony-winning Broadway actor who starred in the sitcom ‘Alice,’ dies at 87

By Mark Kennedy

December 30, 2024 at 7:16 a.m.

Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a...

This undated photo provided by Hallie Meyers-Shyer shows Charles Shyer, the Oscar-nominated writer and filmmaker who died Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. (Hallie Meyers-Shyer via AP)

Charles Shyer, ‘Father of the Bride’ and ‘Baby Boom’ filmmaker, dies at 83

By Lindsey Bahr

December 29, 2024 at 6:11 p.m.

Charles Shyer, the Oscar-nominated writer and filmmaker known for classic comedies like “Private Benjamin,” “Baby...

Former President Jimmy Carter in Plains, Georgia on Dec. 11, 1996. Carter, who rose from Georgia farmland to become the 39th president of the United States on a promise of national healing after the wounds of Watergate and Vietnam, then lost the White House in a cauldron of economic turmoil at home and crisis in Iran, died on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, at his home in Plains. He was 100. (Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times)

Photos: Former President Jimmy Carter through the years

By Pinar Istek

December 31, 2024 at 12:50 p.m.

Former President and humanitarian Jimmy Carter dies at the age of 100. Jimmy Carter, who...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100

By Bill Barrow

December 31, 2024 at 12:49 p.m.

Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate...

FILE - Dayle Haddon attends the first annual Stephan Weiss Apple Awards at the Urban Zen Center on Thursday, June 9, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

Trailblazing model Dayle Haddon dies from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning

By Associated Press

December 29, 2024 at 8:59 a.m.

Dayle Haddon, an actor, activist and trailblazing former “Sports Illustrated” model who pushed back against...

FILE – “Romeo and Juliette” movie director Franco Zeffirelli, left, actors Olivia Hussey, center, and Leonard Whiting are seen after the Parisian premiere of the film in Paris on Sept. 25, 1968. (AP Photo/Eustache Cardenas, File)

Olivia Hussey, star of the 1968 film ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ dies at 73

By Sylvia Hui

December 29, 2024 at 8:53 a.m.

Olivia Hussey, the actor who starred as a teenage Juliet in the 1968 film “Romeo...

G. Joseph Cosenza co-founded Oak Brook-based real estate firm Inland Real Estate Group and headed up the company's acquisitions function during a 56-year career with the firm. (Inland Real Estate Group)

G. Joseph Cosenza, co-founder of Inland Real Estate Group, ‘consummate dealmaker,’ dies at 81

By Bob Goldsborough

December 27, 2024 at 9:08 p.m.

G. Joseph Cosenza, 81, a co-founder of Oak Brook-based Inland Real Estate Group, died Dec....

‘Baby Driver’ actor Hudson Meek, 16, dies in a fall from a moving vehicle

By Associated Press

December 26, 2024 at 11:13 a.m.

Teenage actor Hudson Meek has died after he fell out of a moving vehicle in...

FILE – Producer Richard Perry poses for a photo in Los Angeles, Jan. 18, 1982. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)

Richard Perry, record producer behind ‘You’re So Vain’ and other hits, dies at 82

By Hillel Italie

December 24, 2024 at 7:12 p.m.

Richard Perry, a hitmaking record producer with a flair for both standards and contemporary sounds...

Former stock car driver Fred Lorenzen, at his Oak Brook home on July 3, 1993, looks at a trophy he won at the Daytona race many years ago. Lorenzen regrets retiring at 33. “I was the first driver to win $100,000 in a year. Now that’s peanuts.” (John Dziekan/baiduhai)

Fred Lorenzen, ‘the Elmhurst Express’ and NASCAR Hall of Famer, dies just shy of 90

By Graydon Megan

December 24, 2024 at 2:18 p.m.

Elmhurst native Fred Lorenzen, who won the 1965 Daytona 500 and is enshrined in the...

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