Madigan court foe Gonzales backs Pritzker, says speaker and Rauner must go

Aretha Franklin, who changed the face of rock and roll, soul and R&B with such classics as “Think” and her signature song “Respect,” died Thursday at her home in Detroit at 76 of pancreatic cancer.

Wallace “Gator” Bradley, a close friend, worked with Baskin in the early ‘90s to help bring down gun violence related to warring gang factions. “I would say he is an icon, a truth teller and he stands on his morals regardless who he may offend. He was a man for the people,” Bradley said.

John E. 'Jack' Vadas, a bait shop owner on Chicago's East Side who fought to protect Lake Michigan and its perch and was hailed as a ”major figure in Lake Michigan fisheries,” has died at 86.

Maureen “Moe” Clancy, owner of Moe’s Tavern in Logan Square, has died of breast cancer at 56.