{"id":2474,"date":"2021-09-20T17:35:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T22:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/?p=2474"},"modified":"2021-09-20T17:35:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T22:35:59","slug":"john-william-bill-locke-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2021\/09\/20\/john-william-bill-locke-60\/","title":{"rendered":"John William &#8220;Bill&#8221; Locke &#8217;60"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>John William \u201cBill\u201d Locke \u201960<\/strong> of Chicago died Sept. 7, 2021. He was 83. Bill majored in sociology at Illinois Wesleyan and went on to earn a master\u2019s degree in library science from the University of Chicago. He served as director of the Harold Washington College Library for 35 years, earning the college\u2019s Distinguished Professor Award. Bill was also a volunteer leader for many groups, including the Chicago Chapter of the international nonprofit Society of Architectural Historians, the Caxton Club, Chicago Art Deco Society and Cliff Dwellers Club. Bill loved Chicago\u2019s Newberry Library; he worked there briefly as a young man and returned in retirement as a volunteer. He is survived by his wife <strong>Judith (Rehnquist) Locke \u201959<\/strong>, three sons and a grandson. You can read the full obituary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hugheyfh.com\/obituaries\/John-William-Locke?obId=22300273\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hugheyfh.com\/obituaries\/John-William-Locke?obId=22300273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John William \u201cBill\u201d Locke \u201960 of Chicago died Sept. 7, 2021. He was 83. Bill majored in sociology at Illinois Wesleyan and went on to earn a master\u2019s degree in library science from the University of Chicago. He served as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/2021\/09\/20\/john-william-bill-locke-60\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions\/2475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1960sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}