Trailblazing Chicago chef Charlie Trotter died Tuesday at his Lincoln Park home. Trotter, 54, passed away a year after closing his namesake Chicago restaurant that was credited with putting his city at the vanguard of the food world and training dozens of the nation's top chefs, including Grant Achatz and Graham Elliot. Paramedics were called around 10 a.m. to Trotter's Lincoln Park home, where they found him unresponsive.