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Lois Weisberg (May 6, 1925 – January 13, 2016) was the first Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for the City of Chicago, from 1989 until January 2011.. She was profiled by writer Malcolm Gladwell in a 1999 New Yorker essay, "Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg"; Gladwell, called Weisberg a "connector" for her ability to connect people from differing communities, and included the essay about her in ...
List of Chicago alderpersons since 1923. The Chicago City Council assumed its modern form on April 16, [dates 1] 1923, with fifty wards each electing one alderperson. Here is a list of the people who have served as an alderperson since that time. Since its incorporation as a city in 1837 Chicago had been divided into wards whose number varied ...
Edward Robert Vrdolyak (/ v ər ˈ d oʊ l i. æ k /; born December 28, 1937), also known as "Fast Eddie", is a former American politician and lawyer.He was a longtime Chicago alderman and the head of the Cook County Democratic Party until 1987 when he ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Chicago on the Illinois Solidarity Party ticket.
(death announced on this date) Nikolai Korolkov, 77, Russian equestrian, Olympic champion . (death announced on this date) Jon Landau, 63, American film producer (Titanic, Avatar, Alita: Battle Angel), Oscar winner , cancer. George Mamalassery, 92, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Tura (1979–2007), respiratory failure.
On June 29, 2003, an overloaded balcony collapsed during a party in a Chicago, Illinois apartment building, killing thirteen people and seriously injuring fifty-seven others. It was the deadliest porch collapse in American history. The ensuing investigation was highly critical of the way the balcony was built, finding a large number of errors ...
Lists of deaths by year. This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in June 2024) and then linked here.
The murder of Zheng Shaoxiong occurred in Chicago, United States on November 9, 2021, when Dennis Zheng Shaoxiong, a 24-year-old graduate at the University of Chicago, [1] was fatally shot by Alton Spann, a 19-year-old Chicago resident, on the sidewalk in the 900 block of East 54th Street in Hyde Park. [2] Court documents say that when Spann ...
Frank J. Jirka Jr. (grandson) Anton Joseph Cermak ( Czech: Antonín Josef Čermák, pronounced [ˈantoɲiːn ˈjozɛf ˈtʃɛrmaːk]; May 9, 1873 – March 6, 1933) was an American politician who served as the 44th [1] mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from April 7, 1931, until his death in 1933. He was killed by an assassin, whose likely target was ...