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Famed, exacting Chicago chef Charlie Trotter dead at 54
Award-winning chef Charlie Trotter, a self-taught culinary master whose eponymous Chicago restaurant elevated the city's cuisine and provided a training ground for some of the nation's other best chefs, has died at the age of 54.Photos: Charlie Trotter through the yearsChicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said rescue crews were called around 10 a.m. Tuesday to the chef's Lincoln Park home, where they found Trotter unresponsive. Langford said an ambulance crew transported Trotter to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died …
