McCaskey, the older of Halas' two children, never expected to find herself in charge. Her brother, George "Mugs" Halas Jr., was being groomed to take over the team, but died suddenly of a heart ...

She was the rock.” Virginia McCaskey was born in Chicago to Min and George Halas in 1923, the oldest of two children, along with younger brother George S. “Mugs” Halas Jr. She attended ...

George Halas kept his speech short but spoke in a tone that exuded ... During the summers, the McCaskey children would head down to St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Ind. – where the Bears held ...

George Halas was 25 when he created the National ... Halas’ journey from the last of eight children, four of whom survived infancy, of Bohemian immigrants in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood ...