Chicagoan and Emmy-Winning Actor Andre Braugher Dies at 61

Two-time Emmy Award-winning actor Andre Braugher died after a brief illness on Monday. He was 61.& Before Braugher became one of his generation’s finest actors, he grew up in Chicago’s Austin community on the West Side. His mother worked for the Postal Service, and his father was a heavy equipment operator. He grew up in a home that stressed academic excellence.& His dad would review his homework nightly and make him redo it if there were too many erasures or even smudges, the actor told The New York Times in a 2014 profile.& Braugher was reared in a tough Chicago neighborhood but didn’t succumb to the pressures that often befall young men in Austin. “We lived in a ghetto,” Braugher said in The Times profile. “I don’t consider myself to be especially wise, but I will say that it’s pretty clear that some people want to get out and some people don’t. I wanted out.” Braugher attended St. Ignatius College Prep, a Jesuit Catholic School on the Near West Side. It was at St. Ignatius that he distinguished himself as a student. From there, Braugher earned a scholarship to attend Stanford University, where his father hoped he would study engineering....