Mayoral candidates react with outrage or resignation to cover-up acquittals

Barbara Proctor "helped open up the category of black-owned advertising agencies focused on the black consumer market," said adman Tom Burrell.

In life, Barbara Brown had four animal species named for her: a Peruvian rodent, a Brazilian monkey, a mouse in the Philippines and a prehistoric bird. But in death the longtime Field Museum staffer and donor hoped to be reincarnated as a hawk.

Maria and Simon Mata were married for 68 years — until they died within hours of each other in the same bed at a nursing home in Chicago Heights last weekend. Maria Mata, 90, died first. Simon Mata, 95, told her he would follow soon and did.

Vanguard also shook up the industry by ending the company's reliance on outside brokers by directly marketing its funds to investors without charging upfront fees known as sales loads.