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For decades he helped steer Zabar’s, a food institution. He lived for “the store,” his family and his Manhattan neighborhood.
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A 21-year-old U.S. Navy sailor based at Naval Station Great Lakes in Lake County was found unresponsive and pronounced dead under a bridge on Chicago’s Near West Side Saturday evening, officials said. The Chicago Police Department responded around 8 p.m. Saturday to the 600 block of West Wayman Street on Chicago’s Near West Side for a report of a person down. A caller reported that a man was lying under the Des Plaines Street bridge behind green boxes and had not moved, according to police radio traffic. A dispatcher later told officers the man was reported to be dead on arrival, radio traffic indicated. The man was found unresponsive and was pronounced dead at the scene, police officials said. Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office records show he was pronounced dead at 8:18 p.m. Officers later requested an evidence technician to the scene and told a dispatcher the man’s body was outside and he had not yet been identified, according to police radio traffic.
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