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Bob Barker, ‘The Price Is Right’ host for 35 years, dies at 99

Barker will be remembered for his work as a game show host as well as his animal advocacy.

August 26, 2023

John ‘Jack’ Seitz, former Des Plaines alderman and mayor, dies at 92

John Edgar “Jack” Seitz served as Des Plaines alderman for 14 years before serving as mayor in the 1980s.

August 25, 2023

Ron Cephas Jones, ‘This Is Us’ actor who won 2 Emmys, dies at 66

Ron Cephas Jones, a veteran stage actor who won two Emmy Awards for his role as a long-lost father who finds redemption on the NBC television drama series “This Is Us,” has died at age 66, a representative said Saturday.

August 20, 2023

Classic Cinemas founder Willis Johnson is dead at 86. His dedication saved downtown theaters in communities across Chicagoland.

He was "one of the best guys in the business,” said his friend and fellow suburban theater owner Dino Vlahakis of the Pickwick Theatre. “He was a true showman."

August 18, 2023

Rick Jeanneret, a Hall of Fame broadcaster and longtime voice of the Buffalo Sabres, dies at 81

Rick Jeanneret, who always will be regarded as the voice of the Buffalo Sabres after a 51-year broadcasting career, died on Thursday. He was 81.

August 18, 2023

Victor Parra, who promoted Afro-Cuban jazz as host of ‘Mambo Express’ radio show, dies

Victor Parra was a Chicago-area radio host, musician and bandleader who championed Afro-Cuban jazz music as host of his weekly radio show, on both WBEZ-FM and WDCB-FM.

August 15, 2023

Robert Swan appreciation: Movie actor, singer and founder of Harbor Country Opera has died at 78

Robert Swan died in his sleep on Aug. 9 in his home in Rolling Prairie, Indiana. He had long been battling cancer. He was 78 years old.

August 15, 2023

‘Hoosiers’ actor Robert Swan dies at 78

Robert Swan is best known for portraying a Canadian Mountie captain in Brian De Palma’s “The Untouchables,” an Illinois farmer and father of two in David Anspaugh’s sports drama “Hoosiers,” and the father of baseball great Babe Ruth in “The Babe.”

August 09, 2023

Robbie Robertson, lead guitarist and songwriter of The Band, dies at 80

Robbie Robertson, The Band’s lead guitarist and songwriter who in such classics as “The Weight,” “Up on Cripple Creek” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” mined and helped reshape American music, has died at 80.

August 09, 2023

DJ Casper, ‘Cha Cha Slide’ creator and Chicago native, dies at 58

DJ Casper, best known for creating the hugely successful dance hit “Cha Cha Slide,” has died, according to the BBC.

August 08, 2023

William Friedkin, ‘The Exorcist’ director, dies at 87

Director William Friedkin, best known for his Oscar-winning “The French Connection” and blockbuster “The Exorcist,” died Monday in Los Angeles.

August 07, 2023

Mark Margolis, ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul’ Star, dies at 83

Mark Margolis, who portrayed the menacing, bell-ringing Hector Salamanca in "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul," died Thursday at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City.

August 04, 2023

James O’Connor Sr., former ComEd CEO and philanthropic leader, dies

O'Connor led energy giant Commonwealth Edison for nearly two decades

August 01, 2023

In memoriam: Richard Barancik, artful architect and last of the ‘Monuments Men,’ is dead at 98

The monuments that an architect leaves are the buildings he designed, and Richard Barancick’s buildings dot the skyline and pepper the country.

August 01, 2023

Angus Cloud, breakout star of HBO’s ‘Euphoria,’ dead at 25

Angus Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O’Neill on the HBO series “Euphoria,” has died. He was 25.

Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens dies from cancer at 70

Paul Reubens, the actor and comedian whose character Pee-wee Herman became a cultural phenomenon through films and TV shows, has died.

Inga Swenson, Gretchen the cook on the ‘80s sitcom ‘Benson,’ dies at 90

Actor and singer Inga Swenson, who played Gretchen the cook on the popular ‘80s sitcom “Benson,” died on July 23 in Los Angeles. Swenson died of natural causes, according to TMZ. She was 90.

Former investigator Jack Reed, who probed Dianne Masters’ death and was portrayed in TV movies, remembered as being devoted to family, job

John "Jack" Reed, of Orland Park, a former Cook County sheriff investigator whose work on the Dianne Masters death investigation was protrayed in a TV movie starring Brian Dennehy, died at age 82.

Randy Meisner, founding member of the Eagles and singer of ‘Take It to the Limit,’ dies at 77

Randy Meisner, a founding member of the Eagles who added high harmonies to such favorites as “Take It Easy” and “The Best of My Love” and sang and co-wrote the hit “Take It to the Limit,” has died at 77.

Lois Baum, host and producer for Studs Terkel, Lyric Opera at WFMT, dies

Lois Baum was associate program director for 36 years at WFMT-FM, where her roles included co-hosting and co-producing the station’s annual Lyric Opera of Chicago broadcasts.

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