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He was in the real estate and banking business. Beckman served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1951 to 1959 and was a Republican. In 1958, Beckman for the Republican nomination for the Illinois State Treasurer and lost. Beckman died at his home in Kankakee, Illinois. His father Louis E. Beckman also served in the Illinois General ...
Alpiner served as Kankakee City Clerk. He also served as mayor of Kankakee from 1911 to 1913, from 1915 to 1917, and from 1923 to 1925. Alpiner was a Democrat. Alpiner then served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1933 until his death in 1946. He died at his home in Kankakee, Illinois from a stroke and after being ill for several ...
La Rocque was born in Kankakee, Illinois, in 1918 [2] and began his naval service in 1940. When the attack on Pearl Harbor was carried out, he was serving on the USS Macdonough . He participated in 13 major battles during World War II and worked for seven years in the Strategic Plans Directorate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff .
The following notable deaths occurred in 2024. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.
Deaths Description Sources Johann Otto Hoch: Chicago: 1890–1905: 1–50+ Also known as "The Bluebeard Murderer" [35] [36] H. H. Holmes: Multiple: 1891–1894: Con artist and serial killer executed in 1896 [37] Robert Nixon: California, Illinois: 1937–1938: 3–5: Serial killer, basis for Bigger Thomas in Native Son [38] John Agrue: Illinois ...
Stephen Burrell Small (18 March 1947 – 2 September 1987) was a prominent American businessman in Kankakee, Illinois.In 1987, he was kidnapped and held for ransom by Danny Edwards and Nancy Rish.
Convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection for the 1984 kidnapping and murder of 16-year-old Daniel Bridges, he later voluntarily confessed to the 1982 murder of 23-year-old Steven Agan, offering to also confess to his culpability in twenty further unsolved homicides if the state of Illinois would commute his sentence to life ...
George Homer Ryan (born February 24, 1934) is an American former politician who served as the 39th governor of Illinois from 1999 to 2003. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as secretary of State of Illinois from 1991 to 1999 and as lieutenant governor from 1983 to 1991.