Reply #5: Funny -- Mr. Nownow and I were talking about this earlier.

[Philostopher]

We play online music trivia at a restaurant in our neighborhood some Saturday nights, and one of the questions was about a Chicago song, and we went off on that line of discussion.

Terry Kath did die of a gunshot wound, but whether it was intentional or not, I don't know. 'Cleaning his gun,' if I recall correctly.

Edit:

This from "Allmusic.com" --

<<But at a party at his house on the evening of January 23, 1978, Kath (who was a longtime gun aficionado) took out one of his weapons to clean, and when asked to put it away, put the gun to his head. Reassuring everyone that it wasn't loaded, Kath pulled the trigger, and the gun did turn out to be loaded - instantly killing the guitarist barely a week shy of what would have been his 32nd birthday.>>