The future politician who later served on the County Board became famous performing with the Impressions, which also included ...

Jerry “The Iceman” Butler, who had a national hit with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame act The Impressions before leaving for a successful solo career and later entering Chicago politics, died Thursday at ...

Jerry Butler, a soul music giant who later served as a Windy City politician, has died following a long battle with Parkinson ...

Jerry Butler, the beloved Chicago soul singer, producer and, later, politician who began his career in the late 1950 singing ...

His biggest hits included foundational Philly Sound songs "Hey, Western Union Man" and "Only The Strong Survive," written with Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff.

His writer's workshop produced chart singles for the likes of Isaac Hayes and Aretha Franklin and developed songwriters such ...

Jerry Butler, who found R&B stardom in the late 1950s as the ... As a member of the Impressions — which he formed with his adolescent friend Curtis Mayfield, who took over as the group’s lead singer ...

With his resounding baritone and courtly manner, he led the Impressions before beginning a solo career, recording songs like ...

A longtime Chicago resident, Butler was a former Cook County board commissioner who would still perform on weekends and identify himself as Jerry “Ice Man” Butler, a show business nickname given ...

Jerry Butler, the veteran soul hitmaker who became a local Chicago politician, has passed away. Butler was suffering from Parkinson’s disease, and the Chicago Sun-Times reports that he died at home on ...

Dubbed "the Iceman," Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Impressions lead singer scored solo hits with "He Will Break ...

Jerry Butler performs “Only the Strong Survive ... someone he wrote had “a great tenor voice.” That was Curtis Mayfield. Before they climbed the music charts as the Impressions, young ...