Bob Goldsborough

Welsh-born and a physicist by training, Killeen has announced that he will retire at the end of the 2026-2027 academic year.

Chicago mayoral candidate and businessman Willie Wilson in July paid $5.2 million to buy outright the 49th-floor Loop condominium that he had been renting for the past several years.

Former Chicago Bulls guard and executive John Paxson and his wife, Carolyn, on July 14 sold their three-bedroom, 3,089-square-foot town home in Northbrook for $995,000.

Charles R. “Chuck” Bowen remained at City Hall throughout Richard M. Daley’s time as mayor, and he also worked for a time for Rahm Emanuel.

Andrew Karos and his wife bought the nine-bedroom home on July 24 through an opaque land trust.

Former Chicago Bears safety Eddie Jackson, who played for the team from 2017 until 2023, in July sold his six-bedroom, 6,750-square-foot, French Provincial-style mansion in Long Grove for $1.6 million.

Andy Weir, the science-fiction writer of “The Martian” and “Project Hail Mary,” paid $6.8 million in July for a six-bedroom mansion in Winnetka.

Patricia Thrash, a longtime administrator at Northwestern University, died of pneumonia at 97 on Aug. 4 at her home in Evanston.

Pearl Rieger spent decades testing and working closely with children from around the country in an effort to identify disorders, conditions and other impediments to learning.

Former Chicago Bulls general manager Marc Eversley and his wife, Jennifer Del Vecchio, last month sold their five-bedroom, 4,750-square-foot house in the Lakeview neighborhood's Southport Corridor area for $2.35 million — above their asking price. A London native who grew up in Ontario, Eversley served as the Bulls' general manager from 2020 until April, when […]