Legend of city's 'stepping' dance floors

Other recent deaths

• Attorney Edward C. Rustigan, tax-code expert, dies at age 88

• Pediatrics chief at St. Elizabeth

• Activist fought for troubled kids

• USS Indianapolis survivor, executive

• Educational psychologist Burton Faldet dies at age 79

• Rail car research chief, engineer at Pullman Co.

• Aurora dentist also was civic leader

• Owned jewelry store for decades

• Consummate salesman for Haggar Co.

• First Cubs fan to sing during the 7th-inning stretch at Wrigley dies of cancer

• Arlington Heights resident served long in Illinois House, Senate

• Printing heir, nature steward

• Attorney, legal professor

• Headed Harvester during bitter strike

• Wendell Campbell, first president of the National Organization of Minority Architects, dies at age 81

• Polish statesman, leader in Solidarity movement

• Former Bush press secretary Snow dies

• Considered 'greatest surgeon ever' to many

• Fought against age limit for pilots

• Founder, director of opera theater

• Mary P. Rudis, activist in Lithuanian community, dies at age 94

• Teacher shared love of reading

• Tribune copy editor, book critic Joseph Coates Jr. dies at age 75

• Harold C. Scholle, former superintendent of Yorkville School District 11

• ALS sufferer made film about disease

• Retired West Chicago fire chief added emergency service

• Costume maker and performer

• Sigmund Lekan, longtime owner of Paulina Meat Market, dies at age 87

• Supported the arts in Elmhurst

• Early developer in River North

• 'Working-class intellectual'

• 5-time senator 'great patriot' who held fast to his beliefs

• 'Working-class intellectual'

• Ardent patron of Gay Games

• Cop was fixture of downtown beat

• Judge on 'maverick' appellate court

• Retired Illinois appeals Judge Francis S. Lorenz dies at 93

• Daniel J. Fensin, partner at Blackman Kallick accounting firm

• Leading heart physician

• Cartoonist with a sense of whimsy

• Musician led joyful noise

• A magical way with words

• Eben C. Morgan, former Pickard China executive

• Founder of namesake restaurant chain

• Retiree led travel group on global expeditions

• Louisiana's first black justice

• Master of real lobster roll

• Plaintiff in pharmaceutical case

• Vice president at Merrill Lynch

• Worked to solve mystery of genetics

• Deaths last week

• Leader of GOP moderates

• First National Bank chief economist in '80s

• Hockey, football fan a real leader

• Joseph George Planos, Evanston firefighter

• Opened architectural firm

• Civic leader inspired diversity

• Devoted career to caring for kids

• Longtime Harris Bank executive

• Acclaimed restaurateur

• News, police photographer

• Author ran literary journal

• Musician raised 17 children

• Diplomat bloomed late but in full

• Donor with a dose of dissent

• California fast-food innovator

• Longtime Chicago bureau chief of Variety

• Pollack's passing a quiet milestone

• David Shute, retired top lawyer at Sears, dies at age 77

• Hit tune set tone for blues organist

• 'Mommy' of Family Circus

• Glen Ellyn trustee and civic leader

• Earl Shapiro, founder of disposable dinnerware firm, dies at 68

• Physicist led cancer program

• Education activist led school board

• United Methodist leader drove diversity efforts

• Dr. Philip Y. Paterson, 83, retired NU medical school professor

• Found 2nd home in the classroom

• Executive was architecture buff

• Clergyman strove for social justice