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- Mark Pfeffer was born on 9 March 1951. He died on 13 January 2022 in Skokie, Illinois, USA.
- Evil Dave was born on 17 April 1955 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Celebrity Deathmatch (1998), Family Guy (1999) and American Dad! (2005). He died on 3 July 2018 in Skokie, Illinois, USA.
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Herb Graham was born in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Truck Stop Women (1974), The First Nudie Musical (1976) and The Human Tornado (1976). He was married to Estelle. He died on 19 August 2013 in Skokie, Illinois, USA.- Beatrice Fredman was born on 28 December 1918. She was an actress, known for Field of Dreams (1989), Four Friends (1981) and The Enemy (1974). She died on 4 January 1995 in Skokie, Illinois, USA.
- Will Schutz was born on 27 May 1961 in Tecumseh, Nebraska, USA. He was an actor, known for Slave (2003). He died on 25 May 2009 in Skokie, Illinois, USA.
- Eddy 'The Chief' Clearwater was born on 10 January 1935 in Macon, Mississippi, USA. He was married to Earlean Harrington and Renee Greenman. He died on 1 June 2018 in Skokie, Illinois, USA.
- Eddie Ballantine was born on 26 January 1907 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He died on 14 November 1995 in Skokie, Illinois, USA.
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Bren Ortega Murphy was born on 27 November 1949 in Beaumont, Texas, USA. Bren Ortega was a director and producer, known for A Question of Habit (2011). Bren Ortega was married to Christopher Murphy. Bren Ortega died on 26 April 2021 in Skokie, Illinois, USA.- Claude Gray was born on 26 January 1932 in Henderson, Texas, USA. He was married to Brigitte Peick Ross. He died on 28 April 2023 in Skokie, Illinois, USA.
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Billy Meyers was born on 29 July 1894 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Billy died on 28 January 1972 in Skokie, Illinois, USA.- Editor
- Editorial Department
Darwin R. Apel was born on 22 April 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Darwin R. was an editor, known for Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (1963). Darwin R. died on 8 October 2010 in Skokie, Illinois, USA.- Frank Little was born on 22 March 1936 in Greeneville, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor, known for The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977). He was married to Carolyn (Lyn) Sauter. He died on 22 February 2006 in Skokie, Illinois, USA.
- Vern Whaley was born in 1908 in Valley Junction, Iowa, USA. He died on May 28, 2000 in Skokie, Illinois, USA.
Vern Whaley was a picture editor for the old Chicago American for more than two decades and a sportswriter who covered boxing for the Chicago Evening Post in the late 1920s.
The son of a Rock Island railroad engineer, Whaley was born in Valley Junction, Iowa. He went on to become a Chicago journalist and, according to good friend and fellow journalist John O'Brien, "a virtual walking historian."
"He was always full of stories," said O'Brien, a former Chicago Tribune reporter who got to know Whaley when they were members of the Chicago Press Veterans' Association.
"He was legendary. When other journalists or people would come to Chicago looking for stories about Al Capone or Chicago, Vern Whaley would always be there to oblige them."
For example, there was the time when Capone, an avid sports fan, spotted Whaley at a sports writers' luncheon inside the Metropole Hotel and handed him a 50-cent Cuban cigar, a very expensive smoke at the time. Whaley was hooked, until age 80, when he decided to stop smoking them "cold turkey," O'Brien said.
"But after that day, he never smoked anything less than a Cuban cigar," O'Brien said. "And his home, it was like a museum. It was a reflection of his time and era, of the Great Depression, of the Prohibition Era. He was particularly proud of a slot machine. It was seized by police in some vice raid ... way back when."
Whaley started his career as a sportswriter for the Des Moines Register from 1924 to 1928. It was an experience that helped land him a job as an editor and sportswriter at the Chicago Evening Post, where he worked from 1928 to 1930 covering prominent boxing matches and writing a popular column called "Knockout Drops."
He was a sportswriter at a time when reporters and writers occasionally socialized with the people they covered. And so it came to be that boxer Jack Dempsey helped finance Whaley's wedding in 1929 after Whaley lost $500 in savings, according to his son Dr. John V. Whaley. "That was the story that he would tell anybody who would listen," said Dr. Whaley. "My poor mother had to listen to that for 66 years of marriage. In fact, the only way she could get out of it was by preceding him in death four years ago."
Most of Whaley's career was spent at the Chicago American, a daily newspaper in Chicago, where he was a picture editor for 21 years. One day, in the late 1950s, Whaley decided to place several potted plants inside several potholes along a stretch of city street. The headline the next day read: "Mayor Daley's New Plan for Beautifying Chicago's Streets."
Hours after the newspaper hit the stand, Mayor Daley's street crews were filling the holes.
Whaley was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame in May 1998. In 1992, he was named Chicago Press Veteran of the Year by the Press Veterans' Association of Chicago.
In his later years, some of Whaley's thoughts and feelings on what it was like to be a reporter during the Depression were tape recorded. They are now part of the Encyclopaedia Britannica audio-visual library. He has also appeared in several documentaries in Europe and the United States about Chicago's Roaring '20s.