Arthur Frommer, whose “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day” guidebooks revolutionized leisure travel by convincing average Americans to take budget vacations abroad, has died. He was 95.
Former Chicago Bulls forward Bob Love died Monday at age 81, the team announced, following “a long battle with cancer.”
Herlda Senhouse, who founded a jazz dance group to raise money for Black students in the 1950s and lived to become the second-oldest person in the United States, has died at age 113.
Longtime Chicago police Officer and Cmdr. Dana Starks was the department’s first deputy superintendent — its No. 2 leader — for four years before leading the department as interim superintendent from 2007 until 2008. Starks, 74, died Oct. 14, according to a statement from the Police Department. Born in the South Side Englewood neighborhood, Starks […]
Shel Talmy, a Chicago-born music producer and arranger who worked on such British punk classics as The Who’s “My Generation” and The Kinks’ “You Really Got Me,” has died. He was 87.
Music legend Quincy Jones died earlier this month reportedly from pancreatic cancer.
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Those who knew him over the decades shared public tributes to Quincy Jones on Monday.
Quincy Jones, the multi-talented music titan whose vast legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson’s historic “Thriller” album to writing prize-winning film and television scores and collaborating with Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and hundreds of other recording artists, has died at 91.
Teri Garr, the quirky comedy actor who rose from background dancer in Elvis Presley movies to co-star of such favorites as “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” has died. She was 79.