Legendary Chicago high school basketball coach Landon Cox dies

May 7, 2020

Legendary high school basketball coach Landon Cox has died. Landon “Sonny” Cox took his Martin Luther King College Prep team to the state finals six times, They won championships in 1986, 1990 and 1993. His daughter Danielle Cox-Jones said her father passed Tuesday morning of natural causes after declining health in recent weeks.

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