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Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
Beverly Fawell, 82, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1981–1983) and Illinois Senate (1983–1999), chronic heart failure. [415] Sergio Focardi, 80, Italian physicist. [416]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Cardiss Collins, 81, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois (1973–1997). [ 39 ] John Michael D'Arcy , 80, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend (1985–2009), lung and brain cancer.
The merged system includes six hospitals, more than 515 physicians, 6,475 employees and 85 outpatient and specialty care clinics in Illinois and Wisconsin. In January 2019, they opened a $505 million hospital and physician clinic in Rockford called Mercyhealth's Javon Bea Hospital and Physician Clinic–Riverside.
Ontario is an unincorporated community in Ontario Township, Knox County, Illinois, United States. Ontario is located at the junction of County Routes 6 and 35, 4 miles (6.4 km) north-northwest of Wataga .
On July 1, 1899, six of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis moved to Rockford at the request of the citizens to open a hospital. [1] The order had previously moved to America from Prussia in 1875, when Otto von Bismarck banned religious orders from the country. [1]
[12] [13] In 1921, the Illinois Masonic Hospital Association purchased Chicago Union Hospital [9] for $100,000. [10] By the end of the 1930s, the hospital had more than 150 beds. [11] In November 2000, Illinois Masonic Medical Center became a hospital member of Advocate Health Care. In 2002, the hospital suffered losses of $18 million due to ...