Dick Jauron led one of the most improbable and exciting years for the Chicago Bears in the Super Bowl-era. The former coach died Saturday. He was 74.
The Rev. John Buchanan, longtime leader of prominent Near North Side congregation, and former editor of The Christian Century, dies.
Attorney Lewis Morgan Porter Jr., who was active with the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, has died.
Virginia McCaskey, principal owner of the Chicago Bears and the only daughter of team founder George Halas, died Thursday at 102.
The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims at age 20 as a Harvard undergraduate and poured a material empire built on billions of dollars in tithes into building homes, hospitals and schools in developing countries, has died. He was 88.
Kellogg Fairbank III, who became the Chicago Maritime Museum’s executive director after a career in business, has died.
A U.S. Army captain who died in Wednesday’s midair collision of a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet was “brilliant and fearless” and “meticulous in everything she did,” friends and fellow soldiers said.
Olympic figure skating great and authoritative commentator Dick Button has died at age 95.
Mary Ellen Christy, who founded the St. Chrystostom’s Day School on the Gold Coast, has died.
Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, muse, libertine and old soul who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones’ greatest songs and endured as a torch singer and survivor of the lifestyle she once embodied, has died. She was 78.