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He founded and owned Casey Laskowski and Sons Funeral Home [2] [6] in the Kelvyn Park neighborhood. [1] He and his family lived above the funeral home. [1] He and his wife, Virginia, had three children. [1] He served as the president of the Polish American Businessmen's Club. He also served on the John Barry School Board.
The Chicago Sun-Times has claimed to be the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city. That claim is based on the 1844 founding of the Chicago Daily Journal, [4] which was also the first newspaper to publish the rumor, now believed false, that a cow owned by Catherine O'Leary was responsible for the Chicago fire of 1871. [5]
Marshall Field IV was born in New York City on June 15, 1916, to Evelyn (née Marshall) Field and Marshall Field III.[1] [2] Among his siblings was Barbara Field, who also married three times (to Anthony Addison Bliss, Robert Kenneth Boggs, and George Peter Joseph Benziger, grandson of James Joseph Brown). [3]
Michael Royko Jr. (September 19, 1932 – April 29, 1997) was an American newspaper columnist from Chicago, Illinois.Over his 30-year career, he wrote more than 7,500 daily columns for the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune.
Jerry Springer Shutterstock Remembering a TV icon. Jerry Springer was laid to rest during a private funeral service in Chicago on Sunday, April 30. Attended by the late host’s family and friends ...
A one-day visitation was held at Rayner Funeral Home on Friday, September 2, 1955. It is said that 5,000 people attended, though accounts vary. [2] The open-casket funeral was held on September 3 at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ. Roughly 2,000 attendees witnessed the service inside the church with thousands more attending outside. Rev.
Jarrett was the first African American to be a syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune, beginning in 1970. [8] During his years at the Tribune, he also was a host on Chicago's ABC-TV station, WLS, where he produced nearly 2,000 television broadcasts. [2] In 1983, he left the Tribune for the Chicago Sun-Times as an op-ed columnist. [8]
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