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Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Lee Albert Miglin (July 12, 1924 – May 4, 1997) was an American business tycoon and philanthropist. After starting his career as a door-to-door salesman and then broker, Miglin became a successful real estate developer.
Tribune Publishing Company (briefly Tronc, Inc.) [2] is an American newspaper print and online media publishing company. The company, which was acquired by Alden Global Capital in May 2021, has a portfolio that includes the Chicago Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel, South Florida's Sun-Sentinel, The Virginian-Pilot, the Hartford Courant, additional titles in Pennsylvania and Virginia, syndication ...
Head of Chicago chapter of Unione Siciliana, shot by gunmen at his house under order from Bugs Moran: Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Chicago: 1929-02-14: 7: Murder of seven Irish members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang that occurred on Saint Valentine's Day [50] Jake Lingle: Chicago: 1930-06-09: 1: Reporter for Chicago Tribune shot ...
Robert Rutherford "Colonel" McCormick (July 30, 1880 – April 1, 1955) was an American publisher, lawyer, and businessman.. A member of the McCormick family of Chicago, McCormick became a lawyer, Republican Chicago alderman, distinguished U.S. Army officer in World War I, and eventually owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper.
Bruce Everitt Lindahl was born on January 29, 1953, in St. Charles, Illinois, to Jerome and Arlene Lindahl. [3] Lindahl graduated from Downers Grove North High School. [4] He attended college and graduated in the mid-1970s with a degree in electromechanics.
Mabley was born on October 26, 1915, in Binghamton, New York, to Clarence Ware Mabley (born Clarence Ware Mable) and Mabelle née Howe, a concert pianist.. After studying journalism at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he was the editor of the Daily Illini his senior year, and graduating in 1938, Mabley worked for the City News Bureau, the Associated Press, and then as a ...
Owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper Born in Chicago Robert Sanderson McCormick: Jul 26, 1849: Apr 16, 1919: United States ambassador to Austria-Hungary, Imperial Russia, and France: Lived in Chicago Ruth Hanna McCormick: Mar 27, 1880: Dec 31, 1944: Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's at-large district