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Real estate developer John Baird dies at 98

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By ABC7
December 28, 2013

While his family's business is well known in Chicago, Baird will also be remembered for his fight against housing discrimination.

He died from complications of a stroke suffered just over a week ago.

Baird was 98 years old.

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