HINES (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - A west suburban man who served his country and broke records has died. The Hines Veterans Affairs Hospital has announced the death of Eugene Baltes. He was 110-years-old.

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Joan Ricard, head of Hines Veterans Hospital in suburban Chicago, will retire after a tenure that included being drawn into a national scandal over secret patient waiting lists.

Hines now carries a cold case coin, given to her grandmother by the Boone County Sheriff's Office, everywhere she goes. "That day I went to the hospital to see her and everything. She ended up ...