"He will be missed forever," George Wendt's family said in a statement announcing the May 20 passing of the beloved actor.

George Wendt, an actor with an Everyman charm who played the affable, beer-loving barfly Norm on the hit 1980s TV comedy ...

Zoom out: Wendt fondly remembered his Chicago years, telling the Tribune in 1990 about the freedom of growing up in Beverly. ...