Gapers Block published from April 22, 2003 to Jan. 1, 2016. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
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Tuesday, September 10
Actor Charlton Heston, an Evanston native and New Trier and Northwestern alum, has died at age 84 from unspecified causes.