Obituary
Herb Kohl, Chain-Store Scion Turned US Senator, Dies at 88
- Four-term Democrat also owned the Milwaukee Bucks NBA team
- Local grocery business flourished into department-store giant
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Herbert Kohl, who ran his family’s eponymous retail and grocery stores before serving four terms as a Democratic US senator, has died. He was 88.
Kohl died following a brief illness, the Herb Kohl Foundation said in a statement late Wednesday.