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Passover, which starts before sundown Monday and ends after nightfall on April 30, commemorates the liberation of Jews from slavery in Egypt.

Lois Friedberg-Dobry, who devoted her life to bringing joy and justice to her beloved Chicago, died on Saturday, December 2, 2023. She was 98.

If any journalist could be said to have lit the spark for an artistic movement, that scribe was Richard Christiansen, longtime chief critic at the Chicago Tribune.

Mrs. Thompson enjoyed visiting Los Angeles. In the mid-’70s, "We were having lunch at the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel and were waiting for the car to come around. Charlton Heston was standing there waiting," her son said. "She turned to him and said, ‘Oh, Moses!’ It was very entertaining."