Suicides Chicago

A former Cook County judge, under investigation in the Justice Department's five-year-long inquiry into corruption in Chicago's courts, fatally shot himself Monday, police said, just days before he was reportedly to be indicted by a federal grand jury. Allen F. Rosin, 55, who was repeatedly named as a recipient of bribes in courtroom testimony over the last two years, was found dead in a tanning booth of a downtown Chicago health club by employees who heard a shot fired. Police recovered a .

Mystery writer Eugene Izzi's death by hanging last month has been ruled a suicide, consigning to fiction a theory that he was murdered by a subject of one of his books, authorities said Thursday. The Cook County medical examiner ruled late Wednesday that Izzi, 43, hanged himself by a rope outside his downtown office on Dec. 7. An anti-depressant drug was found in his system and he was known to be undergoing therapy for depression.

Mystery writer Eugene Izzi's death by hanging last month has been ruled a suicide, consigning to fiction a theory that he was murdered by a subject of one of his books, authorities said Thursday. The Cook County medical examiner ruled late Wednesday that Izzi, 43, hanged himself by a rope outside his downtown office on Dec. 7. An anti-depressant drug was found in his system and he was known to be undergoing therapy for depression.

Mystery writer Eugene Izzi, who was found hanged from his office window in a downtown high-rise a month ago, left an unpublished novel whose hero nearly dies the same way, a newspaper reported Wednesday. The Chicago Tribune, citing unidentified sources, said the FBI found the manuscript on computer discs discovered in Izzi's pockets Dec. 7. Like Izzi, the novel's central character is a Chicago mystery writer with a 14th-floor office, the newspaper said. Each is hanged in a similar manner.

Retired Michigan pathologist Jack Kevorkian helped a 53-year-old man who was suffering from bone cancer to commit suicide Wednesday, the ninth person and the first male to do so with his assistance. Jack Elmer Miller's death was announced in a statement released by Kevorkian's lawyer, Geoffrey N. Fieger, in Detroit. It said that Miller's last words were, "I love you all."

For a crime writer who dispensed death to his characters with clinical street realism, Guy Izzi died against type. His body was found on a cold Chicago morning, dangling from the window ledge of his 14th-floor office overlooking the expanse of Grant Park.

Mystery writer Eugene Izzi, who was found hanged from his office window in a downtown high-rise a month ago, left an unpublished novel whose hero nearly dies the same way, a newspaper reported Wednesday. The Chicago Tribune, citing unidentified sources, said the FBI found the manuscript on computer discs discovered in Izzi's pockets Dec. 7. Like Izzi, the novel's central character is a Chicago mystery writer with a 14th-floor office, the newspaper said. Each is hanged in a similar manner.

The oldest and most prolific soccer franchise in the United States is practicing on a tennis court. Carpet covers the asphalt. Wooden boards surround the baselines. The San Diego Sockers are young and shaggy-haired and laugh easily as soccer balls leave their feet and clang into one of the goals. Clang , because the goal is a chain-link fence. Later, they will walk past courts still used for tennis, lock their cars and leave the neighborhood as prostitutes are arriving.

For a crime writer who dispensed death to his characters with clinical street realism, Guy Izzi died against type. His body was found on a cold Chicago morning, dangling from the window ledge of his 14th-floor office overlooking the expanse of Grant Park.

Retired Michigan pathologist Jack Kevorkian helped a 53-year-old man who was suffering from bone cancer to commit suicide Wednesday, the ninth person and the first male to do so with his assistance. Jack Elmer Miller's death was announced in a statement released by Kevorkian's lawyer, Geoffrey N. Fieger, in Detroit. It said that Miller's last words were, "I love you all."

A former Cook County judge, under investigation in the Justice Department's five-year-long inquiry into corruption in Chicago's courts, fatally shot himself Monday, police said, just days before he was reportedly to be indicted by a federal grand jury. Allen F. Rosin, 55, who was repeatedly named as a recipient of bribes in courtroom testimony over the last two years, was found dead in a tanning booth of a downtown Chicago health club by employees who heard a shot fired. Police recovered a .