Jerry Butler, a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and former Cook County commissioner, passed away nearly two weeks ago, but a dispute has emerged over who controls his final arrangements.

The family of the late Cook County Commissioner Jerry "Iceman" Butler is appealing to his caretaker, who has planned a visitation and funeral for him. The 85-year-old Chicago soul music giant and Cook ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The life of Jerry Butler was celebrated Wednesday at a memorial planned by his family. The celebration at ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Butler, a premier soul singer ... The son Mississippi sharecroppers, Butler and his family moved moved ...

Jerry Butler, who found R&B stardom in the late 1950s as the first ... His death was reported by the Chicago Sun-Times, which cited a family friend and said that Butler (who had Parkinson’s disease) ...

Jerry Butler, cofounder of the Impressions and baritone ... according to the Sun-Times and the Post — moved the family to Chicago as part of what's now known as the Great Migration.

Jerry Butler Jr. was born in Sunflower, Mississippi, on Dec. 8, 1939. His parents were sharecroppers who moved the family north to Chicago when Mr. Butler was 3, part of the era’s Great ...

Jerry Butler, a premier soul singer of the 1960s ... The son Mississippi sharecroppers, Butler and his family moved moved north to Chicago when he was 3, part of the era’s “Great Migration ...

CHICAGO (WLS) — The family of the late Cook County Commissioner Jerry “Iceman” Butler is appealing to his caretaker, who has planned a visitation and funeral for him. The 85-year-old Chicago ...