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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Chicago, Illinois or from the surrounding suburbs.

Politicians and statesmen

Donald Rumsfeld

• Benjamin Adamowski, mentor turned rival of Richard J. Daley
• John Ashcroft, former Attorney General
• Rod Blagojevich, former congressman and former governor of Illinois
• James Borow, former State Senator and close friend of President Lincoln
• James Bowler, former Alderman and Congressman
• Jane Byrne, former Mayor
• Anton Cermak, former Mayor
• Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, retired four-star general in the U.S. Army and presidential candidate in 2004
• Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Senator & former First Lady (Park Ridge)
• "Bathhouse" John Coughlin, former alderman
• Richard J. Daley, former mayor (Bridgeport)
• Richard M. Daley, current mayor (Bridgeport)
• Paul Douglas, University of Chicago economist, alderman and U.S. senator
• Stephen A. Douglas, early U.S. senator and presidential candidate who debated Abraham Lincoln (born in Brandon, Vermont)
• Edward F. Dunne former governor
• John M. Harlan, former Supreme Court justice
• Carter Harrison, Sr., former mayor
• Carter Harrison, Jr., former mayor
• Michael "Hinky-Dink" Kenna, former alderman
• Janet Jagan, briefly Prime Minister & later, President of Guyana
• Jesse Jackson, minister, civil rights activist, former presidential candidate (born in Greenville, South Carolina)
• Joe Kernan, 48th Governor of Indiana
• Lisa Madigan, current Attorney General of Illinois
• Michael Madigan, current Speaker of Illinois House of Representatives
• Joseph Medill, newspaper editor and former mayor
• Barack Obama, junior senator from Illinois, 44th President of the United States (born in Honolulu, Hawaii)
• William Butler Ogden, first mayor of Chicago, entrepreneur
• Roman Pucinski, former congressman and alderman and onetime mayoral candidate
• Deval Patrick, governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• Prince Peter of Yugoslavia (born in Chicago)
• John Podesta, former White House Chief of Staff for President Bill Clinton, 1998-2001
• Donald Rumsfeld, former congressman, former United States Secretary of Defense (Evanston)
• Amos G. Throop, former city treasurer, temperance advocate in 19th century
• William Hale Thompson, last Republican mayor of Chicago
• Elihu B. Washburne, former secretary of state and former minister to France
• Harold Washington, first and only black mayor of Chicago
• John Wentworth, former mayor and congressman

Athletes, coaches, and related figures

• Walter Payton, former NFL player
• Bobby Hull, NHL Hall of Famer
• Gale Sayers, NFL Hall of Famer
• Red Grange, former college football
• Quinn Buckner, prep, NCAA, NBA & Olympic basketball champion
• Michael Turner, NFL running back Atlanta Falcons
• Flozell Adams, NFL player
• Derrick Rose, NBA player Chicago Bulls
• Eddy Curry, NBA Player
• Ernie Banks, MLB Hall of Famer and "Mr. Cub"
• George Mikan, NBA Hall of Famer
• Steve Bartman, Infamous Cubs fan
• Chris Chelios, NHL star
• Frank Lenti, High school football coach
• D'Lo Brown, Professional wrestler
• Dick Butkus, Pro Football Hall of Famer
• CM Punk, Professional Wrestler
• Maria Kanellis, WWE Diva
• Colt Cabana, Professional wrestler
• Harry Caray, TV & radio broadcaster
• Jack Brickhouse, TV & radio broadcaster
• Charles Comiskey, Major League Baseball player Comiskey Park is named for^[1]
• Bart Conner, Olympic gymnast, who won two gold medals in the 1984 Summer Olympics
• Shani Davis, Olympic speedskater
• Doc Rivers, NBA coach, former NBA player
• Mike Ditka, former Bears coach, TV analyst
• Stan Mikita, NHL Hall of Famer
• Lou Boudreau, baseball Hall of Famer
• Al Lopez, baseball Hall of Famer
• Ray Nitschke, NFL Hall of Famer
• Billy Williams, baseball Hall of Famer
• Bobby Dotter, NASCAR driver turned owner
• Fred Evans, NFL player Miami Dolphins
• Michael Finley, NBA player
• Laura Granville, profesional tennis player
• Ozzie Guillén, manager of Chicago White Sox;
• George Halas, former coach of the Chicago Bears
• Dorothy Hamill, figure skater
• Tim Hardaway, NBA player

• James "Chico" Hernandez, Sombo Wrestling champion and featured on the box of Wheaties^[2]
• Hal Higdon, distance runner, running writer
• Curtis Granderson, MLB player (Detroit Tigers)
• Mike "Coach K" Krzyzewski, college basketball coach
• Marv Levy, former coach of Buffalo Bills
• Herman Long, baseball player and manager^[1]
• Jim McMahon, quarterback of 1985 Super Bowl champion Bears
• Donovan McNabb, NFL quarterback
• Walter Payton, Pro Football Hall of Famer
• Scottie Pippen, former Chicago Bulls forward
• Mike Wilbon, ESPN sports analyst, Journalist
• Candace Parker, WNBA All-Star for Los Angeles Sparks
• Cappie Pondexter, WNBA All-Star for Phoenix Mercury
• Justin Roberts, pro wrestling ring announcer WWE
• Russ Rose, Hall of Fame women's volleyball coach at Penn State
• Stuart Scott, ESPN analyst
• Ryne Sandberg, former Cubs second baseman
• Ron Santo, former Cubs third baseman and current WGN broadcaster
• Billy Sianis, creator of the Curse and founder of the Billy Goat Tavern
• Tim Foley, National Football League 1972 Miami Dolphins, Pro Bowl player. Also Quixtar Crown Ambassador IBO.
• Mike Singletary, former Bears linebacker and NFL Hall of Famer
• Sammy Sosa, former Cubs player
• Amos Alonzo Stagg, football coach
• Isiah Thomas, Basketball Hall of Famer
• Chuck Ulrich, Chicago Cardinals defensive tackle
• Brian Urlacher, Chicago Bears linebacker
• Dwyane Wade, NBA player
• Quentin Richardson, NBA player
• Antoine Walker, NBA player
• Bill Callahan, college and NFL coach
• Will Bynum, NBA player
• Mike Joy, NASCAR announcer on FOX
• Napoleon Harris NFL linebacker
• Corey Maggette, NBA player
• Shawn Marion, NBA player
• Johnny Kerr, NBA Hall of Famer
• Knute Rockne, former Notre Dame coach
• Jerry Colangelo, former owner Phoenix Suns & Arizona Diamondbacks
• Tony Zale, boxing champion
• George Mikan, NBA Hall of Famer
• Ray Meyer, former DePaul coach
• Kirby Puckett, baseball Hall of famer
• Marcelo Balboa, former soccer defender who played for the U.S. national team, becoming its captain.

Musicians

Patti Smith

• William Susman, composer
• Tim McIlrath, lead singer and guitarist for Rise Against
• Joe Principe, bassist for Rise Against
• Brandon Barnes, drummer for Rise Against
• Zach Blair, guitarist for Rise Against
• Plain White T's, rock band
• Emilie Autumn, Violindustrial singer, violinist, poet, and author.
• Nils Lofgren, former backing member for Neil Young and current member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
• Emma Abbott, (1850-1891), born in Chicago, noted soprano^[3]
• Andy Hurley, drummer for Fall Out Boy (born in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin)
• Patrick Stump, lead singer and guitarist for Fall Out Boy (Glenview)
• Joe Trohman, guitarist for Fall Out Boy (born in Hollywood, Florida) (Wilmette)
• Pete Wentz, bassist and lyricist for Fall Out Boy (Wilmette)
• Anastacia, singer
• Avant, singer
• William Beckett, lead singer of The Academy Is...
• Rachel Barton Pine, violinist
• Andrew Bird, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist
• Bob Bryar drummer of My Chemical Romance
• Paul Butterfield, blues musician
• Marty Casey, frontman of the rock band Lovehammers
• Peter Cetera, former singer and bassist of Chicago
• Cashis, rapper
• Jimmy Chamberlin, The Smashing Pumpkins drummer
• Gene Chandler, singer
• Steve Coleman, saxophonist
• Nat King Cole, singer (born in Montgomery, Alabama)
• Steve Cole, jazz saxophonist
• Sam Cooke, singer (born in Clarksdale, Mississippi)
• Common, rapper
• Billy Corgan, singer and The Smashing Pumpkins frontman (Glendale Heights)
• James Cotton, blues musician
• Da Brat, rapper
• Jack DeJohnette, drummer, pianist
• Dennis DeYoung, fomer singer and keyboardist of Styx
• Bo Diddley, rock & roll guitarist, singer, songwriter
• Disturbed, rock group
• Willie Dixon, blues songwriter and record producer
• Do or Die or D.O.D., rappers
• Florence Kirsch Du Brul, classical pianist
• Phil Everly, singer
• Lupe Fiasco, rapper (Harvey)
• Harvey Fuqua, singer, songwriter, producer
• Benny Goodman, bandleader (Maxwell Street)
• Steve Goodman, singer
• Gene Greene, singer
• Buddy Guy, blues guitarist (born in Lettsworth, Louisiana)
• Jim Hager, singer
• Jon Hager, singer
• Eddie Harris, saxophonist
• Herbie Hancock, musician
• Lil Hardin Armstrong, musician, (pianist)
• Loleatta Holloway, singer
• Howlin' Wolf, musician (born in West Point, Mississippi)
• James Iha, former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist
• Jeremih, singer
• Syleena Johnson, singer (Harvey)
• Benn Jordan, electronic musician
• Terry Kath, former singer and guitarist of Chicago
• Brendan Kelly, bassist and vocalist of punk band The Lawrence Arms
• R. Kelly, singer (Roseland)
• Chaka Khan, singer
• William Kimball, founder of Kimball Piano Company
• Gene Krupa, drummer, bandleader
• No I.D., hip hop and R&B record producer
• Robert Lamm, singer and keyboardist of Chicago, born in Brooklyn, New York, October 13, 1944; raised in Chicago
• Ramsey Lewis, jazz pianist, composer
• Ray Manzarek, keyboardist of The Doors
• Curtis Mayfield, songwriter, guitarist
• Tom Morello, guitarist
• Muddy Waters, blues musician
• Wayne Nelson, lead singer of Little River Band
• Jim O'Rourke, experimental musician
• Chuck Panozzo, bassist of Styx
• John Panozzo, former drummer of Styx
• Walter Parazaider, woodwind player of Chicago
• Tom Paxton, folk singer, songwriter, born in Chicago, October 31, 1937
• James Petrillo, musicians' union head
• Liz Phair, singer
• Lou Rawls, singer
• Rhymefest, rapper
• Todd Sucherman, drummer of Styx
• Danny Seraphine, former drummer of Chicago
• Matt Skiba, lead singer of Alkaline Trio
• Patti Smith, singer, songwriter and poet
• Horatio Spafford, composer
• Mavis Staples, singer
• Shawnna, rapper
• Larenz Tate, actor
• Hound Dog Taylor, guitarist
• Koko Taylor, singer
• Giorgio Tozzi, basso
• Jeff Tweedy, singer, songwriter
• Lennie Tristano, pianist
• Twista, rapper
• Jon Walker, former bassist for Panic at the Disco
• Dinah Washington, singer (born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
• Paul Wertico, jazz drummer
• Kanye West, rapper, producer (born in Atlanta, Georgia)
• Wesley Willis, singer
• D'arcy Wretzky, former Smashing Pumpkins bassist
• James Young, guitarist for Styx
• Yung Berg, rapper
• Zim Zum, guitarist, songwriter for The Pop Culture Suicides
• MTKilla, rapper
• Rise Against, punk-rock group
• Drill-a-matic, rapper,lyricist
• Seán T. D. Ó Catháin, musician
• Minnie Riperton, singer

Entertainment figures

Bill Murray

• Gillian Anderson, actress
• Dominic Armato, voice actor
• Reiko Aylesworth, actress
• Barney Balaban, mogul, head of Paramount Pictures
• Bob Balaban, actor, director, producer
• Adam Baldwin, actor
• Ryan Bank, media producer
• Ike Barinholtz, comedian
• Ralph Bellamy, actor
• James Belushi, actor, comedian (Wheaton)
• John Belushi, actor, comedian (Wheaton)
• Jack Benny, actor, comedian
• Tom Berenger, actor
• Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist
• Shelley Berman, comedian
• Carlos Bernard, actor
• Michael Ian Black, comedian
• Budd Boetticher, film director
• Tom Bosley, actor
• Andre Braugher, actor
• Buddy Bregman, composer, arranger
• Pat Byrnes, The New Yorker cartoonist
• Colt Cabana, professional wrestler
• Monique Calhoun, model
• Steve Carell, actor, comedian
• Allan Carr, producer
• Dan Castellaneta, actor, comedian (Oak Park)
• Kyle Chavarria, actress
• Anna Chlumsky, actress
• Stephen Colbert, comedian
• Joan Cusack, actress, comedian
• John Cusack, actor
• Clifton Davis, actor, composer, minister
• Walt Disney, founder of The Walt Disney Company
• Mike Douglas, talk show host
• Katie Doyle, castmember of MTV's Road Rules
• Tom Dreesen, actor, comedian (Harvey)
• Moosie Drier, actor, director
• Michael Clarke Duncan, actor
• Kevin Dunn, actor
• Dennis Farina, actor
• Chris Farley, actor, comedian
• Shannon Farnon (b. 1942), actress
• Jon Favreau, actor, writer, director
• Tina Fey, actress, writer
• Michael Flatley, dancer
• Harrison Ford, actor
• Bob Fosse, director, choreographer
• Dennis Franz, actor
• Kathleen Freeman, actress
• Ira Glass, NPR broadcaster
• Arlene Golonka, actress
• Stuart Gordon, playwright, screenwriter, film director and producer
• Michael Gray, actor
• Kathy Griffin, actress, comedienne (Oak Park)
• Michael Gross, actor
• Kevin Hagen, actor
• Daryl Hannah, actress
• Wood Harris, actor
• Hugh Hefner, publisher
• Charlton Heston, actor (Evanston)
• Mark Hollmann, Urinetown composer, lyricist, (born and raised in Belleville, Illinois)
• Terrence Howard, actor
• Jennifer Hudson, actress, singer (Englewood)
• John Hughes, film director/writer
• Sam J. Jones, actor
• William James Jones, actor
• Jim Kaiser, talk show host
• Philip Kaufman, film director
• Harvey Korman, actor, comedian
• Greg Kotis, Urinetown playwright
• Ron Livingston, actor
• Richard Long, actor
• Lar Lubovitch, choreographer
• Bernie Mac, actor, comedian
• Justina Machado, actress
• William H. Macy, actor, producer
• John Mahoney, actor
• John Malkovich, actor
• David Mamet, playwright, poet, screenwriter, director
• Michael Mann, film director, writer, producer
• Joe Mantegna, actor
• Richard Marx, singer, songwriter
• Ron Masak, actor
• Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, actress (Oak Park)
• Jenny McCarthy, actress, model (West Elsdon)
• LisaRaye McCoy, actress
• Frances McDormand, actress
• Rick Moranis, actor, comedian
• Cindy Morgan, actress
• Trevor Morgan,actor
• Jennifer Morrison, actress, producer
• Brian Doyle-Murray, actor
• Bill Murray, actor, comedian
• Bob Newhart, actor, comedian
• William Newman, actor
• Ken Nordine, voiceover and Word Jazz recording artist
• Donald O'Connor, actor, dancer
• Keke Palmer, actress/singer (Harvey)
• Mandy Patinkin, actor
• Melvin Van Peebles, director
• Jeannie Pepper, pornographic actress
• Jeff Perry, actor
• William L. Petersen, actor
• Jeremy Piven, actor
• CM Punk, professional wrestler
• Harold Ramis, actor, director, comedian
• Bill Rancic, winner of The Apprentice
• John C. Reilly, actor
• Lucille Ricksen, actress
• John Ridgely, actor
• Justin Roberts, current WWE Raw ring announcer
• Jennifer Runyon, actress
• Pat Sajak, game show host
• Horatio Sanz, actor, comedian
• Amy Sedaris, actress
• David Sedaris, radio broadcaster & author
• Gary Sinise, actor
• Michael Stoyanov, actor best known for playing Anthony Russo, the older brother on Blossom
• Michael Stahl David, actor
• Joe Swanberg, film director, actor
• Gloria Swanson, actress
• Mr. T, actor
• Rea Tajiri, filmmaker
• Jessica Taylor, actress (Forest Park)
• Giorgio Tozzi, singer, actor
• Vince Vaughn, actor
• Carol Wayne, actress
• George Wendt, actor
• Raquel Welch, actress
• Orson Welles, actor, director, writer, producer (born in Kenosha, Wisconsin) (Woodstock)
• Robin Williams, actor, comedian
• Oprah Winfrey, talk show hostess, actress, entrepreneur, philanthropist (born in Kosciusko, Mississippi)
• Robert Young, actor
• Billy Zane, actor
• Donnell Pitman -- runner-up of the show I Survived a Japanese Game Show ^[4]
• Robert Zemeckis, director, producer, writer (Roseland)
• Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., empresario
• Adrian Zmed, actor
• Edward Zwick, director, producer, writer

Academics

• Michele Moody-Adams

Writers, thinkers, scientists, and cultural figures

Frank Lloyd Wright

Enrico Fermi

• Franklin Pierce Adams, columnist
• Sigvald Asbjornsen, Norwegian born American sculptor
• Jack Canfield, writer, Chicken Soup for The Soul
• Jane Addams, awarded Nobel Peace Prize
• Dankmar Adler, architect
• Mortimer Adler, writer and educational reformer
• Nelson Algren, writer
• Saul Alinsky, community organizer, writer and founder of the Industrial Areas Foundation
• K. A. Applegate, author
• Saul Bellow, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
• Allan Bloom, writer and translator
• Harold Bosley, theologian
• Ray Bradbury, author
• Allan G. Brodie, orthodontics educator
• Gwendolyn Brooks, poet
• Algis Budrys, author
• Daniel Burnham, architect
• Edgar Rice Burroughs, writer
• Chris Bury, journalist
• Mother Cabrini, saint
• Marvin Camras, inventor
• Raymond Chandler, writer
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
• Sandra Cisneros, author
• Daniel Cohen, children's writer
• Michael Crichton, writer
• James Cronin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
• James Gould Cozzens, novelist
• Clarence Darrow, attorney and civil libertarian
• Zachary Taylor Davis, architect
• Donald J. DePorter, philanthropist
• John Dewey, educational reformer
• Philip K. Dick, writer
• Charles Dickinson, writer
• G. Walter Dittmar, first president of the Illinois State Dental Society
• Vladimir Drinfeld, mathematician, winner of the Fields Medal
• E. Lloyd Du Brul, dental anatomist
• Helen Flanders Dunbar an important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine.
• Finley Peter Dunne, writer, humorist (Mr. Dooley)
• Stuart Dybek, author
• Roger Ebert, film critic
• Dave Eggers, writer, editor, publisher
• Mircea Eliade, Romanian-born religious scholar and philosopher
• James T. Farrell, writer
• Kenneth Fearing, poet, writer
• Edna Ferber, author, playwright
• Enrico Fermi, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
• Leon Forrest, writer
• Charles E. Fox, architect
• James Ingo Freed, architect
• Milton Friedman, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
• Henry Blake Fuller, writer
• Jeannie Gang, architect
• Larry Gelbart, comedy writer
• Edward Gorey, artist
• Marjorie Grene, philosopher
• Marion Mahony Griffin, architect
• Walter Burley Griffin, architect
• John Gunther, writer
• E. Gary Gygax, author
• George Ellery Hale, astronomer
• Lorraine Hansberry, playwright
• Paul P. Harris, lawyer, founder of Rotary International
• Reidar Rye Haugan, newspaper publisher and playwright
• Ben Hecht, author, journalist
• Larry Heinemann, novelist
• Ernest Hemingway, writer
• Robert Herrick, novelist
• John Augur Holabird, architect
• William Holabird, architect
• Helmut Jahn, architect
• William Le Baron Jenney, architect
• John Kass, journalist
• Leon Kass, writer and chair of The President's Council on Bioethics
• Dr. Fazlur Khan, civil engineer
• Anton LaVey, born Howard Stanton Levey, Writer of The Satanic Bible, Founder of The Church of Satan
• CJ Laity, publisher of ChicagoPoetry.com
• Ann Landers (Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer), columnist
• Adam Langer, novelist
• Leo Lerner, newspaper publisher, founder of Lerner Newspapers
• James Patterson Lyke, Franciscan friar & Roman Catholic bishop
• Catherine T. MacArthur, philanthropist
• George W. Maher, architect
• Tom Mandel, poet
• Benjamin H. Marshall, architect
• Maury Massler, dental educator
• Charles G. Maurice, dental educator
• Merrill C. Meigs, newspaper publisher
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect
• Frederick B. Moorehead, dental educator
• Charles Murphy, architect
• Richard Nickel, photographer
• Charles Gilman Norris, author
• Frank Norris, novelist
• Frederick Bogue Noyes, dental educator
• Clarence Page, columnist
• Ruth Page, ballet dancer
• Sara Paretsky, novelist
• Ed Paschke, artist
• John Dos Passos, novelist and painter
• Cissy Patterson, journalist, newspaper editor
• Dwight H. Perkins, architect
• Frederik Pohl, author, futurist
• Henry Rago,[1] poet and editor of Poetry Magazine from 1955 to 1969
• Juliet Rago,[2] artist
• Rena Rago, artist
• Theodore Regensteiner, inventor of the four-color litographic press
• Earl W. Renfroe, orthodontist and African-American activist
• Mike Resnick, author
• Shonda Rhimes, screenwriter, director, producer (creator and executive producer of Grey's Anatomy
• Martin Roche, architect
• John Wellborn Root, architect
• John Wellborn Root, Jr., architect
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic
• Mike Royko, columnist
• Ernest Samuels, biographer, winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
• Carl Sandburg, poet
• Dan Savage, columnist
• Isaac Schour, president of the International Association for Dental Research
• Sidney Sheldon, playwright, screenwriter, novelist
• William L. Shirer, journalist and historian
• Shel Silverstein, poet, songwriter, and children's writer
• Leo Strauss, political philosopher
• Svend Rasmussen Svendsen, Impressionist artist
• Louis Sullivan, architect
• Stanisław Szukalski, artist and provocateur, friend of Ben Hecht, part of the Chicago Renaissance
• Lorado Taft, sculptor
• Maria Tallchief, ballet dancer, founder of the Chicago City Ballet
• Studs Terkel, broadcaster, author
• James Tiptree, Jr., author
• Stanley D. Tylman, dental educator, wrote Theory and Practice of Crown and Bridge Prosthesis
• Thorstein Veblen, economist and social critic
• Irving Wallace, writer
• Robert Woodrow Wilson, founder and first director of Fermilab
• Gene Wolfe, author
• Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
• Seán T. D. Ó Catháin, writer, Irish and Welsh language activist.
• Danna Takako Hawley pizza faced little b*tch writer

Criminals

Al Capone

• Tony Accardo, mobster
• Al Capone, mobster
• John Dillinger, bank robber
• John Wayne Gacy, serial killer
• H.H. Holmes, early serial killer
• Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber
• Bugs Moran, mobster
• Jose Padilla, aka Abdullah al-Muhajir, alleged terrorist
• Jack Ruby, killed Lee Harvey Oswald
• Richard Speck, mass murderer
• Robert Hannsen, spy
• Larry Hoover, mobster
• [(Baby Face Nelson)], mobster

Historical Figures

George Pullman

• Leonard Baldy Police Officer, Traffic Reporter.
• Bob Bernard, entrepreneur
• W. Clement Stone, entrepreneur. Founder of what is known today as AON Corporation
• Philo Carpenter, first Chicago pharmacist
• John Chancellor, journalist
• Bernard J. Cigrand, father of Flag Day in the United States
• Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, early Chicago settler
• Marshall Field, entrepreneur
• Betty Ford, former First Lady
• Ada Sawyer Garrett, 19th Century socialite
• Helge Alexander Haugan, banking executive
• H. G. Haugan, railroad executive
• Max Henius, co-founder of American Brewing Academy^[5]
• John Anderson (Publisher), founder and publisher Skandinaven
• Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, early Chicago developer
• Louis Joliet, French explorer
• John Kinzie, early Chicago settler
• Matthew Laflin, early Chicago gunpowder manufacturer and philanthropist
• Charles Magnus Lindgren, Shipping Executive
• John R. Lindgren , Banking Executive
• Horatio G. Loomis, one of the organizers of the Chicago Board of Trade
• Philip Maxwell, early Chicago physician
• Jacques Marquette, missionary
• Eliot Ness, federal agent (Roseland)
• William S. Paley, CBS executive
• Bertha Palmer, socialite, philanthropist
• Potter Palmer, entrepreneur
• George Pullman, entrepreneur, inventor
• Captain George Streeter, riverboat captain and squatter
• Paulina Tayler, early Chicago settler
• Charles Yerkes, entrepreneur

Businesspeople

• Peter Karter
• Randall Ely
• Blythe McGarvie

See also

• Historical Grave Locator

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Reichler, Joseph L., ed (1979) [1969]. The Baseball Encyclopedia (4th edition ed.). New York: Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 0-02-578970-8.  
2. ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20020812173838/http://www.army.mil/usar/news/2002/05may/chico.html
3. ^ Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Marquis Who's Who. 1967.  
4. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Survived_a_Japanese_Game_Show#Game_Results_and_Eliminations
5. ^ American Brewing Academy - Tenth Anniversary Reunion (American Brewing Academy, 1901)

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