He was an unlikely visionary, this crooner in a cowboy hat, but few have sensed or seized the metropolitan moment as deftly as the late Robert O. “Bob” Atcher. Maybe it was his wide travels as a ...

The village headquarters complex has been renamed in honor of the singing cowboy who helped turn a sleepy farm town into a bustling regional center. Just a few days ago, signs went up proclaiming the ...

Family members and longtime friends are mourning the death this week of Maggie Atcher — the widow of Schaumburg's influential second mayor Bob Atcher — at the age of 88. Maggie was known not only as ...

This story was updated to reflect cancellation of a July 30 memorial gathering in Nashville, Tennessee. The July 22 event is still planned. Cecily Atcher Wingsong, daughter of former Schaumburg mayor ...

The vocalist known as the "Dean of the Cowboy Singers" lived most of his preteen years in North Dakota. At the age of 14, Bob Atcher became the host and featured entertainer of his own radio program ...

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