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‘The longest-serving athlete’: Pioneering Special Olympian dies By Paige Fry, Chicago Tribune Published: December 28, 2020, 6:05am Share: 4 Photos About 300 young athletes showed off their skills in such sports as swimming, gymnastics and volleyball during the opening of the first 1974 Northern Area Special Olympics on April 19, 1974. (James O'Leary / Chicago Tribune/TNS) Photo Gallery CHICAGO – When Michael “Moose” Cusack was born in the Chicago Lying-in Hospital in 1956, doctors told his parents that something was wrong — he had Down syndrome. They adv...

Michael 'Moose' Cusack, inspiration for Special Olympics, dead at 64 Since the first Special Olympics in 1968 in Chicago, it has branched out to more than 170 countries and millions of athletes. Author: Associated Press Updated: 6:50 PM EST December 21, 2020 CHICAGO — Michael “Moose” Cusack, a Chicago-area man who helped inspire the Special Olympics movement and who won multiple medals at the athletic event over years, has died. He was 64. The Chicago Tribune reported Monday that Cusack, who had Down syndrome, died at Good Shepherd Manor in Momence, just...

Michael 'Moose' Cusack, an inspiration for Special Olympics and multiple medalist, dies at 64 CHICAGO -- Michael "Moose" Cusack, a Chicago-area man who helped inspire the Special Olympics movement and who won multiple medals at the athletic event over years, has died. He was 64. The Chicago Tribute reported Monday that Cusack, who had Down syndrome, died at Good Shepherd Manor in Momence, just south of Chicago, on Dec. 17 of natural causes associated with Alzheimer's. When he was 10, Cusack joined a Chicago Park District program for children with disabilities, where he met a young physical ed...

Michael “Moose” Cusack, who as a youth helped inspire the Special Olympics movement and who won multiple medals at the athletic event over years, has died at an assisted living facility outside Chicago. Cusack, who had Down syndrome, died Dec. 17 of natural causes associated with Alzheimer’s, the Chicago Tribune reported. He was 64. When he was 10, Cusack joined a Chicago Park District program for children with disabilities in which he met a young physical education teacher, Anne Burke, who is now the chief justice on the Illinois Supreme Court. Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Burke laid th...

Chicago-area man who helped inspire Special Olympics dies Associated PressDecember 21, 2020 GMT FILE - In this May 11, 1988, file photo, Michael Cusack carries the torch around the track at the University of Chicago's Stagg Field during the Special Olympics opening ceremony in Chicago. Cusack, a Chicago-area man who helped inspire the Special Olympics movement and who won multiple medals at the athletic event over years, has died. He was 64. The Chicago Tribune reported Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, that Cusack, who had Down syndrome, died at Good Shepherd Manor in Momence on Dec. 17 of natural caus...