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SUN-TIMES LIBRARY   The Rev. Jesse Jackson addresses the crowd gathered  in the  auditorium of Operation PUSH headquarters on July 25, 1973. Family and friends say the young leader and future civil rights icon was nurtured by the community he found upon moving here 19 feb 2026 - Chicago Sun-Times ESTHER YOON-JI KANG AND NICOLE JEANINE JOHNSON In 1964, Jesse and Jacqueline Jackson drove into Chicago from North Carolina, where they had met, married and had their first child. In the car, with 1-year-old Santita in tow, a pregnant Jacqueline looked around at the tall buildings Downtown and asked her husband a question. “Jesse, do you think anyone will get to know us here?” The newly minted North Carolina Agricultural & Technical College grad was optimistic and reassuring. He turned to his college sweetheart and said: “Baby, I think we’re going to be OK. What we’re going to do is get to work, and we’re going to be just fine.” In the decades that followed, the Rev. Jesse Ja...

MARK J. TERRILL/AP Robert Duvall (shown in 2003), a seven-time Oscar nominee,  did not appear in the third “Godfather” film because of a dispute over money. 17 Feb 2026 - Chicago Sun-Times BY BOB THOMAS Former Associated Press Hollywood correspondent Bob Thomas, who died in 2014, was the primary writer of this obituary. Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Robert Duvall, the Oscar-winning actor of matchless versatility and dedication whose classic roles included the intrepid consigliere  of the first two “Godfather” movies and the over-the-hill country music singer in “Tender Mercies,” has died at age 95. Mr. Duvall died “peacefully” at his home Sunday in Middleburg, Virginia , according to an announcement from his publicist and from a statement posted on his Facebook page by his wife, Luciana Duvall . “To the world, he was an Academy Award-winning actor, a director, a storyteller. To me, he was simply everything,” Luciana Duvall wrote. “His passion for his craft was matched only by...