Robert Sickinger, 'father of Chicago's Off Loop theater movment' (1927-2013)
Robert "Bob" Sickinger, widely considered "the father of Chicago's Off Loop theater movement," and the man instrumental in the founding of the hugely influential Hull House Theater at Broadway and Belmont that blossomed throughout the 1960s, died of congestive heart failure Thursday morning in Delray Beach, Florida. He was 86. Mr. Sickinger, who first made his mark as a young director in Philadelphia, arrived in Chic…