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• Writer enjoyed diverse career

• Offbeat gallery owner

• Investigated 1955 death of Emmett Till

• Astronaut who flew on 3 shuttles

• Geraldine "Gerry" C. Wetterling, longtime administrative assistant at UOP in Des Plaines, dies at age 74

• Brewmaster's work filled Old Town pub

• Photographer sought truth

• Oscar-winning British director

• Led offshoot of Orthodox Church

• '2001' author was scientific visionary

• Worked for years as Chicago activist

• Child pilot set records

• Smithsonian official who kept rowing into his 80s

• Her life was devoted to spreading culture

• Francis P. Donlon, longtime surgeon

• Longtime worker at Barat College

• Forged subprime mortgage industry

• 'Discreet' CEO loved railroads

• Ex-city firefighter, state fire inspector

• John Shedd Reed, 1917 - 2008

• Museum's top paleontologist

• Rose rapidly from mailroom to boardroom

• 'Perfect leader' helped Skokie grow

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• The lone female voice amid Great Debaters

• North Central College professor

• Captured Space Age on film

• Trailblazing Christian journalist

• Master of the lumber yard

• Ex-Ohio senator Metzenbaum dies

• Last of France's WW I veterans

• Scott Mutter, 1944-2008

• Herbert Vierow, longtime DuPage County grain operator

• Former Notre Dame star Jerry Groom dies

• Patrick Botterman, veteran Democratic political operative and Wheeling Township Democratic committeeman, dies at age 44

• Monsignor Clifford E. Bergin, Chicago archdiocese vice-chancellor in the 1960s, dies at age 80.

• Ralph B. Peck, U. of I. professor and geotechnical engineer

• Founder of Trek Bicycle