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Remembering the lives of those in Illinois who died from coronavirus

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Music artist Fred the Godson (1985-2020)

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Gospel singer Troy Sneed (1967-2020)

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Abraham Romi Cohn, a rabbi, survived the Holocaust and helped more than 50 families also survive. (1929-2020)

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Musician John Prine (1946-2020)

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Harold Davis Jr. grew up in the harsh and often unforgiving parts of this city. He knew firsthand its inequities, and he would, in ways both physical and spiritual, spend his adult life doing his best to change it for the better. As he told a reporter in 2014, talking about a radio show he hosted but also about the way he lived his life, "We deal with community-based issues. We deal with mostly from a solutions standpoint. We try to attack issues head-on, and we're trying to deal with the actual—what's it going to take to solve a problem." He attempted to solve problems in a variety of ways: daily for two hours of conversation at WGBX-1570AM as host of a passionate and provocative radio show, "The Butt Naked Truth" which began airing in 2010; as head of an organization that was in the business of supplying food to Chicago public schools and, most deeply, working with at risk youth to repair school auditoriums and in the process mend their own lives. Married and the father of a teenage son and daughter, Davis died of complications from COVID-19 on Easter morning at Rush University Medical Center. He was 63 years old.

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Former Republican presidential candidate and businessman Herman Cain (1945-2020)

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Playwright Terrence McNally (1938-2020)

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Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy (1939-2020)

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Music producer Hal Willner (1957-2020)

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Musician Alan Merrill was best known for writing the song, "I Love Rock 'n' Roll." (1951-2020)

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Actor Andrew Jack (1944-2020)

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Former NFL kicker Tom Dempsey (1947-2020)

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Comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor (1940-2020)

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Longtime White House butler Wilson Jerman (1929-2020)

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Japanese comedian Ken Shimura (1950-2020)

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Fashion designer Jenny Polanco (1958-2020)

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Actor Mark Blum (1950-2020)

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Musician Manu Dibango (1933-2020)

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Actor Nick Cordero (1978-2020)