Lear, Matthew
appeared in Glenview Announcements, 31 Dec 1981, p. 101
Description
- Media Type
- Genealogical Resource
- Newspaper
- Item Type
- Obituaries
- Notes
- Spouse: Celeste Lear
Survived by: his wife, Celeste Lear.
Matthew Lear, age 73, a former Glenview police magistrate and a leader in the development of the Illinois toll road system, died in Orlando, FL of a massive coronary while driving to the Orlando airport. His wife, Celeste, who was with him in the auto, said that she grabbed the steering wheel from Lear's hands just after he accellerated from a stop sign; and she was able to avoid a collision. Celeste was uninjured. After moving to Glenview in 1948, Matthew Lear, a graduate of Loyola Law School, became active in United Village Party politics. He served two terms as police magistrate in the late 1960's, a judicial system abolished after the Cook County circuit court system was established. He practiced law in Chicago and Glenview and had been an attorney for the Illinois toll road commission. According to Jack Mabley, Tribune columnist and former Glenview village president, Lear was instrumental during the early 1960's in assuring that billboards would not be allowed near the tollways in Illinois. Glenview resident John W. Reilly, a friend of Lear's, said that Lear persuaded each community along the toll road system to accept the billboard ban. Along with his political affiliations, Lear was the first Grand Knight of the Evanston-based Knights of Columbus in the 1960's.
Cemetery: Orlando, FL - Date of Publication
- 31 Dec 1981
- Date Of Event
- December 14, 1981
- Last Name(s)
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Lear
- Language of Item
- English
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