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  • Nick Holonyak Jr.

    Nick Holonyak Jr., pioneer of LED lighting, dies

    Sep 18, 2022 3:00 pm15783 views

    Nick Holonyak Jr., a renowned innovator of illumination, has died. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor was 93 years old.

    Holonyak (pronounced huh-LON-yak) is credited with the development of the first practical visible-spectrum LED, now commonly used in light bulbs, device displays and lasers worldwide. 

  • Former General Electric Co. CEO and chairman Jack Welch went to work as a chemical engineer at GE immediately after completing a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1960.

    Alumnus Jack Welch, former General Electric CEO and chairman, dies at 84

    Mar 2, 2020 1:45 pm6737 views

    John Francis “Jack” Welch Jr., 84, the former CEO and chairman of General Electric Co., has died. He was a chemical engineer who earned a Ph.D. in 1960 in chemical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Jul 25, 2019 3:30 pm3795 views

    Dolores Jane Byers ... Martin Joseph Knanishu ... Warren C. McCarty ... Kurtis Isaiah Pealer ... Patricia Eileen Price ... Selma Katharine Richardson ... Grace Christine (McCormick) Prestin Samford ... Winton U. Solberg

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Jul 11, 2019 12:45 pm832 views

    Phyllis Gordon ... Richard H. “Dick” Howard ... Paul Dale Shaw

     

     

     

     

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Jun 28, 2019 11:45 am606 views

    Roy O. Walker Jr.

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Jun 20, 2019 11:30 am391 views

    Annie “Anne” Laura Eckerty ... Peter G. Martens

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Jun 13, 2019 2:15 pm399 views

    Amy M. Blue-Short ... Joyce A. Butsch ... Kenneth Morris Davidson ... Virginia Guthrie ... Jean M. Jessee ... Ralph A. Smith ... William Murphy Tilton ... Harry C. Triandis ... Sherry Marie Weaver ... Jefferey “Jeff” Allen Welch

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Jun 6, 2019 1:30 pm281 views

    John C. Hough Jr. ... Janet D. Knesek (nee Scott) ... Joseph “Joe” Konitzki ... Richard Newport Wright III 

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    May 30, 2019 11:30 am325 views

    John “Jack” L. Hayes Jr. ... Wilma J. Parsons ... Jim Schuster

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    May 24, 2019 1:00 pm179 views

    Katharine “Kay” Oline Aston ... “Carol” Margadene Bateman ... Lucille “Lucy” L. Finn ... Joseph A. Garza ... Gerald “Jerry” E. Miner Jr. ... Shirley Bash Rittenhouse ... Louis Allen Walthall

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    May 16, 2019 2:15 pm435 views

    Robert W. McCleary

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    May 9, 2019 2:30 pm325 views

    Janice Lynn Allen ... Donald Chien-Tao Chiang ... Doris M. Downs ... Max Elmer Reid ... Helen Louise (Camp) Ridlen

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    May 6, 2019 3:30 pm221 views

    Tom Battershell ... Jeannine W. Corlas ... Keith Randall Erickson ... Philip Clayton Mitchell ... Shirley J. Smith.

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Apr 25, 2019 11:45 am374 views

    Louis H. “Bud” Mesker ... Darcy Elizabeth Strack

  • Deaths

    Apr 18, 2019 1:45 pm386 views

    Ronald L. Miner ... Charles Edward Olson ... James H. Wyatt Sr.

     

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Apr 11, 2019 12:15 pm656 views

    Janet Lynn “Jaelyn” Jefferson ... Sharon Jo Shiu

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Apr 4, 2019 11:15 am408 views

    Manfred Raether ... Ralph Stoner Wolfe

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Mar 29, 2019 10:45 am372 views

    Frank Gallo ... Charles E. “Charlie” Hartman ... Helen Wright

  • Sun sets behind tall grass.

    Deaths

    Mar 21, 2019 12:15 pm325 views

    Allan G. Mueller ... Stephen Steele Slivon

  • Sun sets behind tall grass.

    Deaths

    Mar 14, 2019 12:00 pm237 views

    Dick J. Albers ... Martha Baxter North

  • Sun sets behind tall grass.

    Deaths

    Mar 7, 2019 1:45 pm280 views

    Paul D. Bermingham ... William “Bill” G. Dean ... Arthur J. Harper ... Lois Ann Allhands Harpst

     

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Mar 1, 2019 11:15 am235 views

    Paul A. Boatman ... Marcel Franciscono

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Feb 25, 2019 2:00 pm280 views

    Lois B. Guiher

  • Sun sets behind tall grass.

    Deaths

    Feb 14, 2019 12:30 pm339 views

    Roberta A. May ... James (Jim) P. Warfield

  • Sun sets behind tall grass.

    Deaths

    Feb 7, 2019 2:30 pm427 views

    James W. “Jim” Chapman ... Willeta Mae Hassell Donaldson ... Elizabeth Fumiko Fujioka Easley ... Barclay George Jones ... Margaret “Eileen” Lyons ... Shirley Ann Perkins

     

     

  • Sun sets behind tall grass.

    Deaths

    Feb 1, 2019 1:30 pm279 views

    Wanda Elliott ... Norma Yvonne (Creekmur) Jackson

     

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Jan 24, 2019 12:45 pm774 views

    Edward J. Armbrust ... Paul P. Bernard ... Richard “Don” Donald Brown ... Charles “Chuck” D. Elmer ... Barbara Ann Phillips ... Marilyn G. Vizek

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Jan 11, 2019 8:30 am477 views

    Danny L. Elam ... Randall Joseph Lutz ... Glenn Gregory Simpson ... Kent Thompson

     

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Jan 7, 2019 11:00 am297 views

    Edward E. Durbin ... Doris Patricia “Pat” Foster ... Judy Kurlakowsky ... Marjorie E. Nelson ... Frances Joann Pierce

  • The sun sets behind tall grass.

    Deaths

    Dec 13, 2018 12:30 pm716 views

    Sammy Ray “Sam” Sommer ... Kerrin Thompson

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Dec 6, 2018 12:45 pm388 views

    William Curtis Blaylock ... Susan Blunier ... Paula Jo Goodwin ... Barbara Clarke Swain

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Nov 29, 2018 1:15 pm514 views

    Alva “Tad” LeRoy Addy ... Nancy J. Blackburn ... Belle Anna Brine ... John Roy Campbell ... Judith “Judy” Arlene Corray ... Terry Denny ... Marjorie Ellen (Keagle) Lange ... Alleta A. (Sue) Moore ... John (Jim) J.E. Mullen ... George Robert Young

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Nov 15, 2018 11:30 am495 views

    James B. Sinclair

     

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Nov 8, 2018 12:45 pm584 views

    Stephen Mitchell ... Patsy R. Paye ... Alan Rankin ... Stanley James Rankin ... Arthur J. Slates ... Edward L. Young

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Nov 1, 2018 12:45 pm319 views

    Kenneth Nelson Dugan ... Henry William Lippold ... Dr. Thomas N. “Doc” Monfort ... William “Harry” Soloman

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Oct 25, 2018 3:15 pm370 views

    William Boyd Buck ... Emanuel “Manny” Donchin ... Les Gasser ... Marjorie Ellen “Marge” Gordon ... Alvin E. Gustafson ... Phillip I. Henson ... Matthew McClure ... Kurt A. Mitchell ... Pauline Rymer ... Rebecca J. Simon ... Bernard “Bernie” Daniel Taylor

  • Setting sun

    Deaths

    Oct 18, 2018 2:30 pm325 views

    Charles “Chuck” Richard Kibler ... Jennifer Joy Loy ... Yoko Muroga (Nakamura) ... Pauline Rymer ... James Wilburn “Jim” Seets

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Oct 4, 2018 2:30 pm1071 views

    Rita Josephine Deters ... John L. Larson ... Marilyn Sue O’Hara ... Joseph H. Smith ... Gerald Durbin Wood ... David Zola

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Sep 20, 2018 1:30 pm365 views

    Martha JoAnn Milligan ... Charles William (Bill) Smith

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Sep 13, 2018 1:30 pm429 views

    Roy F. Block ... Carolyn Margaret (Rexroat) Dodd ... Mary Anne Hewing ... Timothy Gerard Hewing ... Raymond Ides ... David Kay ... Frederick “Fred” E. Payne ... Margaret R. Selin ... Joseph Tarbet Woolley

  • Nina Baym, pioneer in the study of American women writers, has died

    Jun 21, 2018 9:00 am2777 views

    Nina Baym, an internationally recognized scholar of American literature and a pioneer in the field of study of American women’s writing, has died.

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Jun 7, 2018 11:30 am546 views

    Charles M. Brown ... Norman C. Maske ... Terry D. Moore ... Eris E. Ponsler ... Ruth E. Shull

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    May 31, 2018 11:15 am478 views

    Tom Wyles Day ... Scott Ray White

  • Scott R. White, a pioneer of self-healing materials, died May 28 at age 55.

    Scott R. White, pioneer of self-healing materials, has died

    May 31, 2018 10:45 am6298 views

    University of Illinois aerospace engineering professor Scott R. White, an innovator of self-healing and self-regulating materials, died Monday of cancer at age 55.

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    May 24, 2018 4:15 pm570 views

    Daniel Lee Beckman ... Susan Kathleen Connelly ... Paul Krabbe ... Carolyn G. (Shaw) Mink ... Mete A. Sozen ... Marilyn Upah-Bant

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    May 10, 2018 1:45 pm662 views

    Richard E. Henderson ... Lois Evelyn Overmyer ... Christie Tucker

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    May 3, 2018 3:15 pm375 views

    Ray Boehmer ... Lawrence “Larry” Mervin Bowden ... Leo J. Clennon ... Dale F. “Marty” Eichelberger ... Robert “Bob” Allan Moff ... Christie Tucker ... Dan Weisman

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Apr 27, 2018 11:00 am261 views

    Joseph Frederick Green ... Elmer Osterbur

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Apr 19, 2018 2:30 pm377 views

    Richard Francis Earl Crang ... Donald Earl Hiner ... Thomas E. Jean ... Michael Earl Schlesinger ... Leonard “Lennie” Dean Seward Sr. ... Mary Sleator Temperley ... Cora L. Williams 

  • Sun sets behind tall grass

    Deaths

    Apr 12, 2018 4:15 pm363 views

    Jennifer Kee Anderson ... Joel M. Dexter ... William H. “Doc” Pirkle ... Pola Fotitch Triandis