[3] During World War II, Marovitz waived his deferment and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.
One of his nephews, William A. Marovitz, later became an Illinois state senator himself and was married to Playboy Enterprises chief executive officer Christie Hefner.
[citation needed] Marovitz died on March 17, 2001, of kidney failure at his home on Chicago's North Side.
[1] In 2003, Marovitz's estate donated his papers to the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Recipients include the inaugural class of Jed Stone and Thu Tran, as well as Pablo Almaguer.