Editing Chick Hearn (section)

===Early life and nickname===
Hearn was born in [[Buda, Illinois]] and raised in [[Aurora, Illinois]], in west suburban [[Chicago]], and attended high school at [[Marmion Academy]] and college at [[Bradley University]]. He earned the nickname "Chick" while an [[Amateur Athletic Union]] basketball player at Bradley, when teammates played a prank on him: giving him a shoebox to see his surprised reaction when he opened it and found not sneakers inside, but instead a dead chicken.<ref name="ESPNOBIT" />

He and his wife Marge were married August 13, 1938. They had two children, a son, Gary, and a daughter, Samantha aka Janice, both of whom predeceased Hearn.<ref name="ESPNOBIT" /> His granddaughter is Shannon. Marge Hearn died January 30, 2016, at the age of 98.<ref name="Los Angeles Times">[http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-marge-hearn-obit-20160131-story.html Marge Hearn dies at 98; widow of former Lakers announcer Chick Hearn] ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' January 31, 2016.</ref>