Jon Rabiroff

Jon Rabiroff has been the managing editor of the Lake County News-Sun since 2016. A Syracuse University graduate, Rabiroff has worked for more than 40 years as a newspaper reporter or editor. He has worked for a dozen news organizations, with stops in Upstate N.Y., Birmingham, Ala., Florida and South Korea.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill pause at Casablanca, French Morocco on Jan. 31, 1943, while conferring for a 10-day period, to pose for this photo with the staff chiefs. The chiefs are (left to right): Lt. Gen. H.H. Arnold, commanding U.S. Army Air Forces; Admiral E. J. King, commander-in-chief of the U.S. Navy; Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the U.S. Army; Sir Dudley Pound, British First Sea Lord; Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the Imperial General, Britain and Sir Charles Portal, British Air chief marshall. (AP Photo/Time Inc.)

Column: Today’s politicians could learn a lot from the selfless career of Gen. George C. Marshall

March 19, 2024 at 6:31 p.m.

Marshall, one of the greatest soldiers produced by our or any other nation, is what we used to refer to as a dedicated public servant.

Schaumburg woman killed in Lake Barrington crash

March 13, 2024 at 10:12 a.m.

Police said the woman, 53, was headed north on Route 59 when she veered into the southbound lanes. Her Hyundai sedan struck the rear of a semi-trailer and then struck...

The subject of older, or just plain old, fathers was back in the news recently as word got out that 83-year-old actor Al Pacino is going to be a father again, joining his buddy, 79-year-old Robert De Niro — who just welcomed his seventh child into the world — on the front lines of the battle of Prevagen and Playskool. The two are pictured here at the 2022 Tribeca Festival in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Column: Pacino and De Niro make retirement-age fathers of young children like me appear almost common

June 8, 2023 at 7:53 p.m.

My 5-year-old daughter "graduated" this week from kindergarten, just as I start getting serious about deciding when to retire and start collecting Social Security. As I enter my mid-60s, I...

Florence Henderson sings at the reception after the 1958 wedding of Lake County News-Sun Managing Editor Jon Rabiroff's parents. More than a decade later, she would become a major character on the iconic TV show, "The Brady Bunch."

Column: Mrs. Carol Brady and me, the untold story — How ‘America’s mom’ became a small but significant part of my life

May 12, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.

As Mother's Day arrives, I will once again take a moment to remember how "America's mom," Florence Henderson, essentially climbed off my TV screen and out of a family photo...

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