Author: Living Legends
Victor Vega Hall County GA Death and Obituary – The Hall County community is mourning the heartbreaking loss of Victor Vega, a respected and beloved teacher at East Hall High School in Gainesville, Georgia, who tragically died following a fatal motorcycle accident. His untimely passing has sent shockwaves through the school and surrounding community, leaving behind a legacy of compassion, dedication, and inspiration. Victor Vega was far more than a classroom educator. To his students and peers, he was a mentor, motivator, and a beacon of positivity who brought unmatched enthusiasm and kindness to everything he did. Known for his dynamic…
Lori Healey, chief of staff to Mayor Richard M. Daley, co-leader in the city’s bid for the 2016 Olympics, former CEO of McPier and head of Clayco in Chicago, died of pancreatic cancer Saturday, her family said in a statement. She was 65. “Our mother was someone who was fiercely loyal not just to us, but to her friends, mentees and those who entrusted her to lead. Her career was filled with extraordinary accomplishments that will help define her legacy,” said the statement from her children. “So many knew her as a transformative force in public service, city planning and…
With the exception of a short trip to the Vatican to attend Pope Francis’ funeral, President Donald Trump has stayed stateside during the first three months of his second term. That will change May 13, when the president begins a three-day visit to the Middle East to attend a series of meetings with Gulf Arab leaders and possibly drop in on a Gulf Cooperation Council summit. With the trip a week away, we still don’t know what Trump’s agenda is or what he seeks to accomplish. One could make a reasonable guess that the administration will try to finalize some…
As Joliet races to meet state requirements to be eligible to tap into Lake Michigan water before the region’s groundwater is depleted, a handful of neighboring towns are holding off on making plans to identify alternative sources. About 35 miles southwest of Chicago, Joliet is at the epicenter of a regional water crisis where many suburbs will run out of water supplied by the Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer by 2030, according to estimations in a 2018 report by the Illinois State Water Survey. Construction of the Joliet pipeline is slated to start next month and is being funded by the Grand Prairie…
As the popularity of women’s soccer grows, so have the opportunities for players looking to make the sport a career. The National Women’s Soccer League was once the lone professional women’s league in North America. But others have more recently jumped into the market, including the USL’s Super League and the Northern Super League in Canada. And now it appears lower-tier leagues are forming, too. The NWSL has asked U.S. Soccer to sanction a second-division league that would include at least six teams and possibly launch in 2026. The WPSL Pro also will launch next year as a second-tier league.…
When a driver hit and killed two women pushing a baby boy in a stroller in Winnetka on Friday, Mudassir Rashid and other family members were left in shock. His wife, Sediqeh “Asra” Samadi, 37, of Kenilworth, a chemical engineer who worked at Abbott Labs, was one of the victims. The other was her mother, Saeideh Sigari, a 58-year-old teacher who was visiting from Iran and had been excited to meet her only grandson for the first time. Samadi and Rashid’s 4-month-old son, Yusuf, who was in the stroller, has been hospitalized at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge…
BRISTOL, Conn. — Caitlin Clark’s return to Iowa’s Carver-Hawkeye Arena for a WNBA preseason game between the Indiana Fever and the Brazilian national team averaged 1.3 million viewers on ESPN, the network announced Tuesday. The average viewership for Sunday’s game was 13% higher than ESPN’s 2024 regular-season average for the WNBA. The Fever-Brazil TV audience peaked at 1.6 million, and the game drew a sellout crowd of 15,000 at Carver-Hawkeye, where the average paid ticket price on the resale market was $440. Clark, starting her second season with the Fever, scored 16 points in Indiana’s 108-44 win. It was the…
For those of us who lived through the AIDS crisis, “At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen” triggers too many memories of performances at funerals and wakes, staged in rooms filled with people trying to smile through their tears. For most younger folks, the appearance of a drag queen offers the chance to hoot and holler, to have fun and show some support. Sitting there at “Wake” on Friday night, I found myself hoping that Terry Guest, the writer-performer behind this world premiere from Story Theatre (in residence at Raven Theatre) would not let the voluminous audience reaction go…
Gov. JB Pritzker will join the Democratic governors of New York and Minnesota next month in testifying before a congressional committee about their states’ policies on cooperating with federal immigration authorities. Pritzker’s office confirmed Tuesday that the governor would “voluntarily appear” before the U.S. House Oversight Committee on June 12 after its chairman, Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, announced in a news release that Pritzker would testify alongside New York’s Kathy Hochul and Minnesota’s Tim Walz. “The Trump Administration is taking decisive action to deport criminal illegal aliens from our nation but reckless sanctuary states like Illinois, Minnesota, and…
When Democratic voters go to the polls next March, it will be the first time in three decades that Dick Durbin won’t be on the primary ballot for the Senate seat he first won after Paul Simon’s retirement. They deserve the chance to select one of the many well-qualified hopefuls who’ve been waiting years for the 80-year-old Durbin to call it a day. Instead, we see signs that Gov. JB Pritzker and his formidable staff are working on behalf of his lieutenant governor, Juliana Stratton, to clear the field for her — or at the very least to minimize the…