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Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.

He once tried to explain how he wrote about the celebrated. “I try to find why a certain person touches the rest of us, the essence of why we care about this person.”

Tony Ocean is going strong at 60 years old, performing many nights a week, keeping alive that vanishing entertainment of freewheeling glory known as showbiz.

Comedian Freddie Roman, the former dean of The Friars Club and a staple of the Catskills comedy scene, has died. He was 85. Roman passed away Saturday afternoon at Bethesda

Comedian Freddie Roman, the former dean of The Friars Club and a staple of the Catskills comedy scene, has died. He was 85. Roman died Saturday afternoon at Bethesda Hospital in Boynton Beach, Florida, his booking agent and friend Alison Chaplin said Sunday. His daughter told the entertainment trade Deadline that he suffered a heart…

“A great loss to the world of comedy,” Paul Reiser wrote on Twitter.

“A great loss to the world of comedy,” Paul Reiser wrote on Twitter.

Comedian Freddie Roman, former dean of The Friars Club, died Saturday afternoon at a hospital in Boynton Beach, Florida, his booking agent said.

Comedian Freddie Roman, the former dean of The Friars Club and a staple of the Catskills comedy scene, has died. He was 85.

Comedian Freddie Roman, the former dean of The Friars Club and a staple of the Catskills comedy scene, has died. He was 85.