U.S. Representative) blamed Deneen. She defeated him in the 1930 Republican primary, but lost the November election to James Hamilton Lewis. In 1928 Deneen's home was bombed during an outbreak of violence among rival political factions in Chicago in advance of the Pineapple Primary election. Deneen died in Chicago on February 5, 1940, and was interred there in the Oak Woods Cemetery. The public Deneen School of Excellence was named in his honor. It is located in south Chicago next to the Dan Ryan Expressway, not far from Al Capone's former home on South Prairie. Deneen's great-grandson is actor Jason Beghe.<ref name="Redeye">{{cite news |last=Wagner |first=Curt |title=Chicago P.D.' cast members feel at home' |url=http://articles.redeyechicago.com/2014-01-08/entertainment/46073537_1_chicago-fire-antonio-dawson-dick-wolf |work=Redeye |date=January 8, 2014 |access-date=February 12, 2016 |archive-date=August 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140816085158/http://articles.redeyechicago.com/2014-01-08/entertainment/46073537_1_chicago-fire-antonio-dawson-dick-wolf |url-status=live }}</ref> References Further reading Fullinwider, James William. "The Governor and the Senator: Executive Power and the Structure of the Illinois Republican Party, 1880-1917." (Washington University in St. Louis ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1974. 7514897). Pegram, Thomas R. Partisans and Progressives: Private Interest and Public Policy in Illinois, 1870-1922 (University of Illinois Press, 1992), extensive coverage of Deneen. Tingley, Donald F. The Structuring of a State: The History of Illinois, 1899 to 1928'' (1980) External links 1863 births 1940 deaths American prosecutors People from Edwardsville, Illinois Republican Party governors of Illinois Republican Party United States senators from Illinois Republican Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law alumni McKendree University alumni Illinois lawyers People from Lebanon, Illinois