John Kezdy, the singer for the Chicago punk rock band the Effigies and a longtime prosecutor with the Illinois state’s attorney general’s office, died Saturday, three days after he was riding his bicycle in Glencoe and struck an Amazon van that was stopped along a roadway.
Mr. Kezdy, an avid cyclist who lived in Highland Park, was pedaling along Sheridan Road Wednesday in the intense afternoon heat of last week’s heat wave when he slammed into the back of the delivery van that was stopped, with its hazard lights flashing, according to Andrew Perley, deputy chief of the Glencoe police department.
