Bob Goldsborough

Tyrone Haymore was a longtime resident of Robbins and, with his decades of service as an elected official and as head of its historical society, one also could call him the village’s greatest ambassador and champion. “He absolutely, absolutely loved […]

The owner of Pope Leo XIV’s boyhood home in Dolton has put it up for auction in June, with a minimum asking price of $250,000. Homer Glen-based home rehabber Pawel Radzik paid $66,000 last year for the modest, three-bedroom ranch-style

When home rehabber Paweł Radzik bought a modest, three-bedroom ranch-style house in south suburban Dolton last year for $66,000, he saw it as a chance to do what he does best: make some upgrades and turn around and sell the

Kay Smith illustrated cookbooks and children’s books before gaining a reputation for her watercolor paintings of historic landmarks that led to what she called her “American Legacy” collection. Smith, who taught painting at the Old Town Triangle Association for two

Phyllis Goldblatt was a professor of education foundations at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago for 35 years who studied models of teaching from as far away as China to bolster her work in the classroom. “She was interested in international

A commercial real estate executive with a Lincolnwood-based firm has been revealed as the buyer who paid $9.5 million on Dec. 10 for retired Bulls superstar Michael Jordan’s massive mansion on 8.4 acres in Highland Park. John Cooper, a general

G. Joseph Cosenza got together with two college fraternity brothers and a fellow schoolteacher in the 1960s to form Oak Brook-based Inland Real Estate Group, which they grew from a single three-flat building on the West Side into one of

Billionaire philanthropist and insurance magnate Pat Ryan, who founded and is the retired chairman of Aon Corp., and his wife, Shirley, on Dec. 18 sold one of the two condominium units they have owned on the 62nd floor of the

David Perry headed the University of Illinois Chicago’s Great Cities Institute for 12 years and was considered an expert on issues including  urban and regional economic development, race, politics and public infrastructure. “He deeply thought about issues and resisted easy

The final Chicago-area home that former Bulls Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen once owned — a five-bedroom, 10,000-square-footer in Highland Park complete with an indoor basketball court — sold Nov. 1 for $2.28 million, which was an amount barely higher