Deadlines never rattled Sun-Times editor Frank Sugano; dead at 73
“If it was up to his standards, he approved it. If it wasn’t, he fixed it,” said former Sun-Times editor Mark Jacob, now metro editor at the Tribune.
“If it was up to his standards, he approved it. If it wasn’t, he fixed it,” said former Sun-Times editor Mark Jacob, now metro editor at the Tribune.
Rolf Weil used to say, “In what other country could you arrive with no money, and with hard work and commitment, become a university president?’’
The late Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert once said no movie can be altogether bad if it includes Stanton in a supporting role,
Eddie Thompson was working two jobs but still made time to coach the Tuley Park Comets, the Chicago Park District Little League champions in 1959.
Joe Herbert, dead at 93, started selling cameras and lenses at Marquette Photo Supply when FDR was president and never minded customers just looking.
Other film roles included “Wise Guys,” “Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing,” “Chicago Overcoat” and the animated featured “Shark Tale.”
John Casey worked with Mayor Harold Washington to build the South Side YMCA, “an extraordinary commitment to the inner city,” said Almarie Wagner.
“The world lost a tiny but tough-as-nails fighter for freedom, justice and equality,” said her current spouse, Judith Kasen-Windsor.
It is Hall’s work on the opera stage that left its greatest mark in Chicago.
Xavier “X” Atencio — animator behind early Disney movies “Pinocchio” and “Fantasia” and Disneyland rides like The Haunted Mansion — is dead at 98.
His mellow sound influenced a later generation of singers including Joe Nichols and Josh Turner.
Morris Ellis “had a wonderful orchestra,” said band leader Stanley Paul. “He was very well thought of, and he was always such a gentleman.”
Bernard “Bernie” Domagala, a Chicago cop who was shot and badly wounded 29 years ago by a former officer on the South Side, has died of his wounds.
When it came time to plan her funeral, Christina Molloy made things easier for her family. “Bagpipes,” she instructed. “And get me a good singer.”
Pat Hill, former executive director of Chicago’s African American Police League, died Sunday of cancer.