The body of George Halas Jr., son of the founder of the Chicago Bears, was ordered exhumed Wednesday so that a forensic autopsy can be performed to determine the cause of his death. The order, by ...

A Cook County Circuit Court judge refused Tuesday to hold a trial that would have involved an inquiry into the cause of the December, 1969, death of George S. Halas Jr., son of the founder of the ...

George Halas, age 89, of Plymouth Township, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, August 7, 2019. Born in Swedeland, but raised in Slovakia until the age of 18, Mr. Halas was the son of the late Joh… ...

McCaskey assumed ownership upon her father’s death in 1983, and her late husband, Ed McCaskey, succeeded Halas as chairman. Not long after, she turned over control to Michael, the eldest of her ...

Virginia McCaskey was a busy mother of 11 living in the north suburbs when her brother George “Mugs” Halas Jr. died of a heart attack in 1979. His death left his sister as the only remaining ...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. >> Michael McCaskey, who led the Chicago Bears for nearly three decades following the death of his grandfather George Halas, died today after a lengthy battle with cancer, the ...

Halas had intended for his son, George Jr., to inherit the team and made him team president in 1963. But when George Jr. died from a heart attack in 1979, Virginia was left to inherit the franchise.

Virginia McCaskey, who inherited the Chicago Bears from her father, George Halas, ... She had owned the Bears since her father’s death on Oct. 31, 1983. “While we are sad, ...

Virginia McCaskey, who inherited the Chicago Bears from her father, George Halas, but avoided the spotlight during four-plus decades as principal owner, has died. She was 102. McCaskey's family ...