Circumstances sent John Rowe from Lyndhurst, New Jersey, to Northwestern Oklahoma State College in Alva, Oklahoma, in 1963. The tiny town and the small college in its midst would never be the same.

As the longtime chairman and CEO of the Chicago-based energy firm Exelon, John W. Rowe was a highly visible figure in Chicago’s often-overlapping business and civic communities in the early ...

John Rowe died on Dec. 31, 2021, at Hackensack University Medical Center at the age of 76 after battling illness for several years.

On Friday the city clerk swore in John Rowe as mayor. “Portsmouth has now officially turned the corner,” says Portsmouth resident, Charles Greenhood. “We're very excited, very very excited.” ...

John Rowe, former chairman and CEO of Exelon who built the Chicago-based corporation into one of the largest utility holding companies in the country, died Sept. 24 in Naples, Fla. He was 77.