No matter how rich he got, Mike Ilitch approached each new challenge like a kid spying a baseball field for the first time. A few years back, when he was 82, I asked him how he viewed his mortality.

Business and political leaders in metro Detroit offered praise and reflection Friday night on Mike Ilitch's contributions to the community over the decades. Ilitch, the Wings and Tigers owner who ...

Those who knew Mike Ilitch, the Little Caesars founder and Detroit Tigers owner who died last Friday, have spent the past few days fondly remembering his impact on friends, on Detroit residents ...

Mike Ilitch, Little Caesars founder and owner of the Detroit Tigers and Detroit Red Wings, died Friday at a hospital in the Motor City. He was 87. “My father was a once-in-a-generation ...

It all started with pizza. From a single storefront in a strip mall, Mike Ilitch built a diverse business empire that would become synonymous with Detroit. The self-made billionaire founder of the ...

When Steve Yzerman decided to leave the Detroit Red Wings to become general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2010, he drove to Mike and Marian Ilitch’s home to tell them personally.

Billionaire businessman Mike Ilitch, who founded the Little Caesars pizza empire before buying the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Tigers, won praise for keeping the professional sports teams in the ...

Mike Ilitch was born in Detroit, built his pizza empire out of Detroit, bought his sports teams in Detroit and kept his sports teams in Detroit. When news of his death hit Friday, Detroit mourned.

Mike Ilitch reportedly once paid the rent of civil rights activist Rosa Parks when she moved into a Detroit apartment complex in 1994. Parks, considered "the first lady of civil rights," had moved ...

Mike Ilitch's death is being mourned by so many, because he gave so many people opportunities. He used his franchise to give hard working people a process that helped them realize their full ...

DETROIT -- A funeral was held Thursday for hometown hero Mike Ilitch. “Mr. I,” as he was known, died last week at the age of 87. He was a billionaire who gave a lot to his city -- sometimes in ...