Obituaries

Former Amoco CEO Dies In Glenview

Glenview's Richard Morrow died on Jan. 21 at age 86 in Glenview, where he lived for much of his life.

Richard Morrow, 86, of Glenview, the former CEO of Amoco, the one-time international gas and oil company, died on Jan. 21, Crain's Chicago Business reports. 

In a 1987 profile on Morrow, Fortune called him "dour and meticulous," described him as a man of "personal caution and conservatism" and that he used to hunt, fish and play gin rummy.

Morrow was a trustee at the University of Chicago and Rush Medical Center, according to Crain's, and married to Janet Malone, a member of the Chicago Ethics Board, according to Fortune.

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