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Basketball Hall-of-Famer Willis Reed, leader on Knicks' 2 title teams, dies at 80

By BRIAN MAHONEY
Mar 21, 2023 4:14 PM - Willis Reed, who dramatically emerged from the locker room minutes before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals to spark the New York Knicks to their first championship and create one of sports' most enduring examples of playing through pain, died Tuesday. He was 80.
Actor Lance Reddick dies at 60

By MARK KENNEDY
Mar 17, 2023 5:10 PM - Lance Reddick, a character actor who specialized in intense, icy and possibly sinister authority figures on TV and film, including "The Wire," "Fringe" and the "John Wick" franchise, has died. He was 60.
Arlington Heights author who became known nationally as the 'angel lady' dies

By Christopher Placek
Mar 10, 2023 5:05 PM - An Arlington Heights author who rose to national fame and became known as the "angel lady" for her books about angels and miracles has died. Joan Marie Wester Anderson, 84, wrote more than two dozen books about people who said heavenly angels miraculously saved them from tough situations.
Robert Blake, actor acquitted in wife's killing, dies at 89

By LINDA DEUTSCH
Mar 10, 2023 7:01 AM - Robert Blake, the Emmy award-winning performer who went from acclaim for his acting to notoriety when he was tried and acquitted in the killing of his wife, died Thursday at age 89.
Tom Sizemore, 'Saving Private Ryan' actor, dies at 61

Associated Press
Mar 3, 2023 10:43 PM - Tom Sizemore, the "Saving Private Ryan" actor whose bright 1990s star burned out under the weight of his own domestic violence and drug convictions, died Friday at age 61.
Wayne Shorter, jazz saxophone pioneer, dies at 89

Associated Press
Mar 2, 2023 5:53 PM - Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, has died. He was 89. Shorter died Thursday surrounded by his family in Los Angeles, said Alisse Kingsley, a representative for the multi-Grammy winner.
Char Kozak of Schaumburg dies 82 days after husband

By Eric Peterson
Mar 1, 2023 12:01 PM - Char Kozak, wife of late Schaumburg village trustee Frank Kozak, passed away last week at the age of 80, only 82 days after her husband.
Richard Belzer, stand-up comic and TV detective, dies at 78

By JAKE COYLE
Feb 19, 2023 4:46 PM - Richard Belzer, the longtime stand-up comedian who became one of TV's most indelible detectives as John Munch in "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "Law & Order: SVU," has died. He was 78.
Tim McCarver, big league catcher and broadcaster, dies at 81

By HILLEL ITALIE
Feb 16, 2023 1:36 PM - Tim McCarver, the All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster who during 60 years in baseball won two World Series titles with the St. Louis Cardinals and had a long run as the one of the country's most recognized, incisive and talkative television commentators, died Thursday. He was 81.
Hollywood sex symbol Raquel Welch dies at 82

By Mark Kennedy
Feb 15, 2023 3:38 PM - Raquel Welch, whose emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry bikini in the film "One Million Years B.C." would propel her to international sex symbol status throughout the 1960s and '70s, has died. She was 82.

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