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Article: Harry Zemel, 78, owned dry cleaning store chain
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 17, 1999
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Harry Zemel loved baseball.
He was known for the sports statistics he could cite in an
instant and for playing 16-inch softball at Hollywood Park. But his
greatest pleasure came from watching his grandson, Jacob Solomon
Briskman, pitch for Northwestern University.
And despite a long devotion to the Chicago White Sox, Mr. Zemel
sometimes gave equal time to the Cubs when he visited Wrigleyville to
check on real estate he owned there.
Mr. Zemel, a Northfield resident, died Monday in the hospice
unit of Evanston Hospital after battling cancer. He was 78.
He came to Chicago from Poland with his family at age 3. He
graduated from Tuley High School and entered DePaul University at 16.
Mr. ...