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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Chicago, Illinois, United States. For a similar list organized alphabetically by last name, see the category page People from Chicago, Illinois.
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| Architect: designed the Guaranty Building, Chicago Stock Exchange Building, and Wainwright Building, considered to be the world's first skyscraper
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| Philosopher, educator, and popular author
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| President of Shimer College and Sun-Times editor
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| Community organizer and writer; considered to be the founder of modern community organizing
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| Metals chemist and Women's Army Corps officer; worked on the Manhattan Project
| University of Chicago professor; lived and died in Chicago
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| First totally blind physician fully licensed to practice medicine
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|Founder, School of Social Works Administration at the University of Chicago
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| First Chicago pharmacist
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| Philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer; an early developer of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology
| University of Chicago Professor and founder of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
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| First president of the Illinois State Dental Society
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| Dental anatomist
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| Early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine
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| Biochemist; co-founder of American Brewing Academy
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|Dorothy Evans Holmes
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|Psychoanalytic thinker known for her work on racial and cultural trauma
|Born in Chicago
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| Writer and chair of The President's Council on Bioethics
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| Nuclear engineer and pioneer of the recycling industry
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| Astronomer, archeoastronomer, director of Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles
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| Folk singer, radio personality, brain researcher
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| African American philosopher and academic administrator
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| Israeli-American economist; President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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| Inorganic chemist; developed the concept of hard and soft acids and bases (HSAB theory)
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| President of Alverno College; longest-serving college president in U.S. history
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|Kennedy J. Reed
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|Jun 20, 2023
|Theoretical atomic physicist in the Theory Group in the Physics & Advanced Technologies Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL); a founder of the National Physical Science Consortium (NPSC)
|Raised in south Chicago
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| Inventor of the four-color lithographic press
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| Orthodontist and African-American activist
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| President of the International Association for Dental Research
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| Physicist; venture capitalist; and European Rowing Championships bronze medalist and Olympic rower (1964).
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| Political philosopher
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|Physician and Wikipedia editor who was named 2016 co-Wikimedian of the Year
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| Dental educator, wrote Theory and Practice of Crown and Bridge Prosthesis
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| Economist and social critic
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| Gravitational physicist, author of the textbook General Relativity (1984), and recipient of the Einstein Prize (APS)
| University of Chicago Professor
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Nobel laureates and Fields medalists
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| Social worker and activist; founder of Hull House; first American woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1931)
| Lived and died in Chicago
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| Author; Nobel laureate in Literature (1976); Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1976)
| Grew up in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago
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| Astrophysicist; Nobel laureate in physics (1983)
| University of Chicago professor; died in Chicago
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| Nuclear physicist; Nobel laureate in physics (1964)
| University of Chicago professor; born in Chicago
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| Pioneering mathematician; Fields medalist (1990)
| University of Chicago professor
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| Experimental and theoretical physicist, co-developer of the first nuclear reactor (Chicago Pile-1); Nobel laureate in physics (1938)
| University of Chicago professor; died in Chicago
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| Chemical physicist and member of the Manhattan Project; Nobel laureate in physics (1925)
| Director of the Chemistry Division of the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago
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| Leader of the Chicago school of economics; Nobel laureate in economics (1976);
| University of Chicago professor and graduate
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| Born in Chicago; member of the Chicago school of economics; Nobel laureate in economics (2000)
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| Experimental physicist; Nobel laureate in physics (1988); director emeritus of Fermilab; founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
| Illinois Institute of Technology professor
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| Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in physics (2008)
| University of Chicago professor
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| Chair of the Chicago school of economics; Nobel laureate in economics (1979)
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| Political, economic, psychological and computer science polymath; Nobel laureate in economic sciences (1978)
| Illinois Institute of Technology professor and University of Chicago graduate
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| Applied physicist; co-inventor of the charge-coupled device; Nobel laureate in physics (2009)
| University of Chicago graduate
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| Biologist; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1962); proposed the correct structure for DNA with Francis Crick while a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Sir Lawrence Bragg in the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge in 1953
| Grew up on the south side of Chicago and attended public schools; graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.S. (1947) in Zoology at age 19
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| Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in physics (2004)
| Enrolled at the University of Chicago at 15 years old
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| Founder and first director of Fermilab; Nobel laureate in physics (1978)
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Authors and writers
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| Founder and publisher of Skandinaven
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| Columnist
|
| align="center"|
|-
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| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Intersex activist, writer, artist, and consultant
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Novelist
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Artist
| Born and died in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Journalist and newspaper editor
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Author and futurist
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Novelist
| Born and died in Chicago
|align=center|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Poet; editor of Poetry Magazine (1955–1969)
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Journalist and editor
| Lived and died in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Journalist and politician; editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung (1867–1891)
| Lived in Chicago, buried in Graceland Cemetery
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Author
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
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| Film critic
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Columnist
| Born and died in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Biographer; recipient of the Bancroft Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|Ross Allen Rosenberg
|
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|Psychotherapist and author
|Born in Chicago
| align="center" |
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Poet; recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes
| Lived in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Columnist
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
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| Playwright and librettist
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Playwright, screenwriter, novelist
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Journalist and historian
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|Dora Shulner
|
| align="right" |Jul 24, 1890
| align="right" |May 12, 1964
|Yiddish writer
|Resided in Chicago
| align="center" |
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Poet, songwriter, and children's writer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Film critic
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Poet, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman, and former journalist
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Author
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Broadcaster and author
| Lived and died in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Author
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Author, publisher, producer, researcher, archivist, historian; "one of the foremost authorities on Elvis Presley"
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Author
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Author
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
| align=right|
| Author
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
| align=right|
|
| Author, painter, activist
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|
|-
|}
Business and philanthropy
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! scope="col" width="600" class="unsortable" |Known for
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|80px
|Aug 14, 1937
|Sep 19, 2006
|A pioneer of the medical device industry; founder of Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., which manufactured the world's first lithium battery-powered artificial pacemaker
|Born in Chicago
|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Entrepreneur
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Financier
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| U.S. ambassador to Denmark (1961–1964) and U.S. ambassador to the Philippines (1964–1967)
| Partner in the Chicago law firm Gerlach & O'Brien
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Philanthropist and technology entrepreneur
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Businessman, dentist and periodontist
| Born and practiced in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
|Executive officer of AlphaGraphics
|Born in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Businessman, art collector, and philanthropist
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Businessman and philanthropist
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| German immigrant, brewer, millionaire, original owner of the historic mansion Francis J. Dewes House
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Founded the Emanuel Settlement House
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Entrepreneur
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| 19th-century socialite and philanthropist
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Lumber tycoon
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Olympic and Pan American Games yachting medalist; quarterback for the Brooklyn Dodgers; decorated World War II US Navy sailor; co-founder of Lands' End, and chairman of Commercial Light Company
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
| align=right|
| Railroad executive
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Banking executive
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Owner of the Chicago-based Illinois Staats-Zeitung; Cook County sheriff 1860–1862
| Lived and died in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Early Chicago developer
|
| align="center"|
|-
|John H. Johnson
|
|Jan 19, 1918
|Aug 8, 2005
|Founded the Johnson Publishing Company, served on the board of numerous companies
|Business and life based in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| First CEO of McDonald's
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Gunpowder manufacturer and philanthropist
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| President, Chicago Woman's Club
| Lived in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Banking executive
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|
|align=right|
|Organizer of the Chicago Board of Trade
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Philanthropist
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Businessman, co-founded the Cleveland Browns football team
| Born and raised in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Advertising and public relations executive who served as CEO of Starcom Mediavest Group in North America
| Born and raised in Chicago
|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Chief executive officer of International Harvester; art collector
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Businessman and art collector
| Trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
| Lived and died in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| President of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company (1884–1902)
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Chairman of the board of International Harvester Company
| Trustee of the University of Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| United States Senator from Illinois; member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 1st district
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Biologist, suffragist, philanthropist, and heir to a substantial part of the McCormick family fortune
| Grew up in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Author, inventor, art collector and sculptor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Farmer, inventor, manufacturer, and businessman
| Lived and died in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| U.S. ambassador to Austria-Hungary, Imperial Russia, and France
| Lived in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's at-large district
| Lived and died in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Businessman; member of the New York Stock Exchange; co-founder of the Kappa Sigma college fraternity
| Born in Chicago; Chicago City Council as alderman representing the 18th ward
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
| Lived in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|
|
| President of Leadership for International Finance, LLC
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Businessman and member of the Neiman Marcus family
|
| align="center"|
|-
|Agnes Nestor
|80px
|Jun 24, 1880
|Dec 28, 1948
|Labor activist, politician, founder of the International Glove Workers Union of America, president of Chicago Women's Union League
|Lived and died in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| CBS executive
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Socialite and philanthropist
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Entrepreneur
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Entrepreneur and inventor
|
| align="center"|
|-
|Thomas Pritzker
|
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|Chairman of Hyatt and member of the Pritzker family
|
|
|-
|
|
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
| Businessman and philanthropist; CEO of Beatrice Foods Co.
| Lived and worked in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Depression-era banker, businessman, and philanthropist
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Inventor of the Scherzer rolling lift bridge
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Entrepreneur; founder of what is known today as AON Corporation
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Banker, railroad executive and entrepreneur; known as "father of the greenback"
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Businessman and philanthropist, director of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
| Born and lived in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|Ty Warner
|
|Sep 3, 1944
|
|Entrepreneur known for Beanie Babies and many other successful plush toys
|Born in Chicago and grew up in suburban La Grange
|
|-
|
|
|
|
|Chef
|Born and raised in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Entrepreneur
|
| align="center"|
|-
|}
Crime
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|
|align=right|
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| Serial killer
| Born in Chicago
|-
|
|
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|align=right|
| Street gang leader
| Leader of Folk Nation; died in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Serial killer
| Born in Chicago
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Boss of the Chicago Outfit 1925–1931
|Chicago Outfit
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Serial killer
| Born in Chicago
|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| School shooter
| Born in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Bank robber
| Died in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Gang leader and convicted terrorist
| Grew up in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Serial killer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Boss of the Chicago Outfit
| Chicago Outfit
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| FBI agent; convicted spy for Russia
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Serial killer
| Lived and operated in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Unabomber, mathematician and domestic terrorist
| Born and briefly lived in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px<br>80px
|align=right| (Leopold)<br> (Loeb)
|align=right| (Loeb)<br> (Leopold)
| Murderers
| Born in Chicago
|
|-
|Erich Muenter
|102x102px
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|Imperial German spy, political terrorist, and failed assassin of J. P. Morgan Jr.
|Lived in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Mobster
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
(aka Abdullah al-Muhajir)
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Alleged terrorist
| Lived in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Killed Lee Harvey Oswald
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|
|
| Midwife convicted of manslaughter while providing illegal abortions, 1915
| Worked in Chicago
|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Spree killer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|Wanda Stopa
|80px
|May 5, 1900
|Apr 25, 1924
|Murderer
|Lived and studied in Chicago; was its youngest and first female assistant U.S. district attorney
|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Riverboat captain and squatter
| Lived and died in Chicago
| align="center"|
|}
Fine arts
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|
|align=right|
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| Sculptor
|
| align="center"|
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|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Sculptor, painter and composer
|
| align="center"|
|-
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Artist
| Born and raised in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Artist
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Art connoisseur, curator, promoter and critic
| Lived in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Design educator
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|June Leaf
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
|Artist
|Born and raised in Chicago
|
|-
|Vivian Maier
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
|Photographer
|
|
|-
|Edgar Miller
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
|Designer, artist, sculptor, stained glass maker, wood carver, metal worker
|Born in Idaho Falls, moved to Chicago in 1917, died in Chicago
|
|-
|Norman Parish
|80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
|Artist and art dealer
|
|
|-
|Harmonia Rosales
|80px
|align=right|
|
|Artist
|Born in Chicago
|
|-
|Charlotte Rothstein Ross
|
|1912
|1991
|Lithograph artist
|Born and raised in Chicago
|
|}
Frontier
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| French explorer
| Lived for one winter in what is now Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Early Chicago settler
| Lived in what is now Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
|
|align=right|
| Early Chicago settler
| Lived in what is now Chicago
| align="center"|
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Media
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| 80px
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|
| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Voice actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Actress
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Head of Paramount Pictures
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor, director and producer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Police officer; Chicago's first helicopter traffic reporter
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
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| Media producer
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor and comedian
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor, comedian
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor, comedian
| Born, lived and worked in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actress, singer
|Born in Chicago
|align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor, comedian
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Ventriloquist
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Comedian
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Comedian
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Film director
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
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| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
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|
|align=right|
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| Syndicated cartoonist
|
| align="center"|
|-
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| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress
|
| align="center"|
|-
|Harold Bradley Jr.
|80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
|Football player, actor, singer, artist, TV host, and painter
|Born in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
| align=right|
| Composer
|
| align="center"|
|-
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| Cartoonist for The New Yorker
|
| align="center"|
|-
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| 80px
|align=right|
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| Professional wrestler
| Lives in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Founding publisher of the Chicago Democrat
| Cook County treasurer (1837–1841); Chicago City Councilman, 1841–1842
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress
|
| align="center"|
|-
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| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Producer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| actress
| Born in Chicago
|
|-
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| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor, comedian, producer, writer and director
| Lived and worked in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
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| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor and comedian
| Lives in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Academy Award-winning make-up artist
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
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| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
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| Stand-up comedian
| Lives in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Comedian, TV host, actor, and writer
| Lived and worked in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
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| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress
| Lived in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
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| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Creator and former host of Soul Train
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
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| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Model and actress
| Lived in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
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| Actress
|
| align="center"|
|-
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| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress and comedian
|
| align="center"|
|-
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| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
|
| align="center"|
|-
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| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor, composer and minister
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actress and singer
| Born, raised, and died in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Founder of The Walt Disney Company
| Born on the second floor of the house at 2156 Tripp Avenue, in the Hermosa neighborhood of Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
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| Actor
|
| align="center"|
|-
|Jimmy Dore
|80px
|Jul 26, 1965
|
|Stand-up comedian and political commentator
|Born in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Talk show host
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|
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| Cast member of MTV's Road Rules
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Actor and director
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor, Chicago police officer
| Born and raised in the Old Town neighborhood of Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress and sculptor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor, writer, and director
| Lived and worked in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Rapper
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress, comedian, and writer
| Lived and worked in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Performance artist, actress, artist, and recording artist
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Dancer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born, lived and worked in Chicago; raised in Chicago suburb, Waukegan
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago; raised in Chicago suburb, Des Plaines
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Musician, filmmaker, actor, and author
| Born and raised in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Director, choreographer, and dancer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor and comedian
| Grew up in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|Tavi Gevinson
|
|Apr 21, 1996
|
|Writer, magazine editor, actress
|Born in Chicago
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Actor
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| NPR broadcaster
| Lived and worked in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
| align=right|
| Playwright, screenwriter, film director and producer
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Television reporter and columnist
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Actor on Shazam!
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
| Apr 8, 1926
| Dec 31, 2023
| Comedian
| Born in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress and musician
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress and comedian
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
| align="right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Publisher
| Born, lived and worked in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Reality-TV contestant; winner of Big Brother 15; show's first openly gay winner
| Currently lives in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Composer and lyricist (Urinetown)
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress, singer
| Born in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Film director and screenwriter
| Raised in Chicago suburb, Northbrook; lived and worked in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress, comedian, director, producer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Film director
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Actress, writer, singer
| Raised in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|Ruth Kilbourn
|
|1895
|1984
|Dancer
|Resident of Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
| align=right|
| Media personality, author, journalist, panelist
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Model
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor and comedian
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actress (musicals)
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|
|
| Playwright (Urinetown)
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Comedian
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Stage actress and playwright
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|
|
|Television executive, acting director of Voice of America
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Stand-up comedian
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Choreographer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor and comedian
| Born and died in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor and producer
| Lived in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor
| Lived and worked in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Lived and worked in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Playwright, poet, screenwriter, and director
| Born, lived and worked in Chicago
|
|-
|Larry Manetti
|
|Jul 23, 1947
|
|Actor
|Born in Chicago
|
|-
| Harry Manfredini
|
|
|
| Composer
| Born in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Film director, writer, and producer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress and Playboy model
| Lived in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Film director
| Born in Chicago
|align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor and comedian
| Born In Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor and comedian
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress and producer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Comedian
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor and comedian
| Born in Chicago suburb, Evanston; raised in Wilmette; lived and worked in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor and comedian
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actress
| Lives in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Photographer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Screenwriter, director and producer
| Lived in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
| align=right|
| Voiceover and word jazz recording artist
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor and dancer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
|Actor and comedian
|Born and lived in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress and singer
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor and singer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Adult film actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago suburb, Evanston; lived and worked in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Cinematographer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actress, voice actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor and comedian
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Professional wrestler, professional mixed martial arts commentator, actor, and retired mixed martial artist
| Born & lives in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor, director, and comedian
| Born, lived and worked in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Winner of The Apprentice
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
| align=right|
| Political commentator on WWL-TV (CBS affiliate) in New Orleans, Louisiana
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Screenwriter, director, and producer; creator and executive producer of Grey's Anatomy
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Professional wrestling ring announcer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor and comedian
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Moved to Chicago at age 13
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Film critic
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Puppeteer
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Game show host
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Comedian, actor, television producer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor and comedian
| Grew up in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor, director, and producer
| Born in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress and singer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress
| Lived and worked in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Radio broadcaster and author
|
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor and comedian
| Born in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actress and comedian
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Actor and comedian
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|Kiernan Shipka
|80px
|Nov 10, 1999
|
|Actress
|Born in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor; co-founder of Steppenwolf Theatre Company
| Born in Chicago suburb, Blue Island; lived and worked in Chicago
|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Adult film actor and director
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|
|
| Internet personality, television personality, and former NHL cheerleader
| Born and lived in Chicago
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Film director and actor
| Lives and works in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor, evangelist
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|
|
| Filmmaker
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Singer and actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Broadway and Hollywood actress
| Raised in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Director
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Raised in Chicago suburbs, Buffalo Grove and Lake Forest; worked and lives in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Comedian, co-founder of Upright Citizens Brigade
| Born, lived and worked in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Actress and comedian
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
|
|align=right|
|
| Actor and singer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actress
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor, director, writer, and producer
| Lived in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor
| Born, lived and worked in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Talk show host
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor and comedian
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Talk show hostess, actress, entrepreneur, and philanthropist
| Lived and worked in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Stand-up comedian and singer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Actor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|
| Director, producer, and writer
| Born in the Roseland neighborhood of Chicago
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| Impresario
| Born in Chicago
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| Actor
| Born in Chicago
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| Director, producer, and writer
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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Military
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| U.S. Navy vice admiral
| Born in Chicago
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| U.S. Air Force brigadier general
| Born in Chicago
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| NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, four-star general, presidential candidate (2004)
| Born in Chicago
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| Marine Corps private first class; posthumously received the Medal of Honor during World War II
| Born in Chicago
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| Lieutenant general
| Born in Chicago
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|Joseph Polowski
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|Oct 2, 1916
|Oct 17, 1983
|U.S. Army soldier during World War II; served as a translator between Soviet and American forces on Elbe Day; peace activist
|Lived in Chicago
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| Marine Corps major general; in charge of Marine Motor Transportation during World War II
| Born in Chicago
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| U.S. Army brigadier general; commanded World War I Officers' Training Centers at Fort Sheridan, later an executive with several Chicago-based businesses
| Lived in Chicago
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| U.S. Army major
| Born in Chicago
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|United States Navy vice admiral, commander of United States Fifth Fleet
|Born in Chicago
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| Marine Corps drill instructor
| Born in Chicago
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Music
Politics and law
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| 80px
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| 20th governor of Illinois
| Hometown was Chicago
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| 80px
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| U.S. attorney general
| Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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| Attorney
| Born in Chicago
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| Congressman; governor of Illinois
| Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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| Chicago alderman; U.S. congressman
| Born in Chicago
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|align=right|
| Politician from Michigan
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
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| Journalist and member of the U.S. House of Representatives
| Lived and died in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
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| Attorney, judge, and the first U.S. ambassador to Hungary
| Lived and died in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
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| Served in Wyoming's second state legislature; two terms as governor of Wyoming, 1905–1911
| Lived in Chicago while attending business school
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| 80px
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| Marxist social activist
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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|
| 80px
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| Commissioner of the District of Columbia and two-time Chicago mayoral nominee
| Lived in Chicago
| align="center"|
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|
| 80px
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|align=right|
| U.S. congressman
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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|
|
|align=right|
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| Mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
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| Mayor of Chicago
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
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| Mayor of Chicago
|
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| State senator in Wisconsin
| Lived in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| "Father" of Flag Day in the United States
| Lived in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
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| First lady, US senator from NY, United States secretary of state
| Born in Chicago, raised in suburban Park Ridge
| align="center"|
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(aka "Bathhouse" John Coughlin)
| 80px
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| Chicago alderman
|
| align="center"|
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|
|
|align=right|
|align=right|
| U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Mayor of Chicago
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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|
| 80px
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| Mayor of Chicago
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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|
| 80px
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| White House chief of staff, secretary of commerce
| Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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| Attorney and civil libertarian
| Lived and died in Chicago
| align="center"|
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|Danny Davis
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| align="right" |
|U.S. representative for Illinois, Cook County commissioner, Chicago city councilman
|Lives in Chicago
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| 80px
|align=right|
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| Chicago alderman, U.S. senator, and University of Chicago economist
|
| align="center"|
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| 80px
|align=right|
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| U.S. senator, presidential candidate, noted for debating Abraham Lincoln
| Lived and died in Chicago
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| 80px
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|align=right|
| Governor of Illinois
|
| align="center"|
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| 80px
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| Former mayor of Chicago, White House chief of staff, US congressman
| Lives in Chicago
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|100x100px
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|U.S. representative for Wisconsin
|Born in Chicago
| align="center" |
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|
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|align=right|
|align=right|
| Retired chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| U.S. First Lady; wife of Gerald Ford
| Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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| Political commentator
| Born in Chicago
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|103x103px
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|U.S. senator for Arizona
|Born in Chicago
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|
|frameless|100x100px
| align="right" |Apr 12, 1956
|
|U.S. representative for Illinois, Cook County commissioner, Illinois state senator, Chicago city councilor
|Lives in Chicago
| align="center" |
|-
|
|109x109px
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|Judge of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and U.S. attorney general
|Born in Chicago
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|-
|
| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| State senator for Wisconsin
| Born in Chicago
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|
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| 6th Administrator of Veterans Affairs (1961–65)
| Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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| Iowa state representative
| Born in Chicago
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| State assemblyman for Wisconsin
|Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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|
| 80px
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| First Latino to be elected to Congress from the Midwest
| Born in Chicago
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|100x100px
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|U.S. representative from Arizona
|Born in Chicago
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|
| 80px
|align=right|
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| Supreme Court justice
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
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|align=right|
| Lawyer, founder of Rotary International
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| 80px
|align=right|
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| Mayor of Chicago
|
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| Mayor of Chicago
| Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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| Professor of Political Science and U.S. congressman
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Postmaster of Chicago and managing editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung
| Lived and died in Chicago
| align="center"|
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|100x100px
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|U.S. representative for Illinois
|Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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|align=right|
| Prime minister and president of Guyana
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
|align=right|
|align=right|
| Economist and U.S. representative from Colorado
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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|100x100px
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|U.S. representative for California
|Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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| Hereditary prince of Yugoslavia
| Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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| 36th mayor of Chicago
| Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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| 48th governor of Indiana
| Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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| U.S. congressman
| Born in Chicago, died in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
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| U.S. congressman
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
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| Assistant Surgeon General of the United States
| Native of Chicago
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| 80px
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| Attorney general of Illinois
| Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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| 67th and 69th speaker of Illinois House of Representatives
| Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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| Newspaper editor, mayor of Chicago
|
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| 31st governor of American Samoa
| Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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| Federal agent; leader of the Untouchables; born in Chicago
| Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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| U.S. senator and 44th president of the United States
| Resided in Chicago 1983–2008
| align="center"|
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|100x100px
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|U.S. representative from California
|Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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|align=right|
| Entrepreneur and first mayor of Chicago
|
| align="center"|
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| 80px
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| Governor of Massachusetts
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
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| White House chief of staff for President Bill Clinton (1998–2001)
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
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| U.S. congressman; Chicago alderman
|
| align="center"|
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|Mike Quigley
|frameless|100x100px
| align="right" |Oct 17, 1958
|
|U.S. representative for Illinois, Cook County commissioner
|Lives in Chicago
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|100x100px
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|U.S. representative for Illinois
|Born in Chicago
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| Chicago Police deputy superintendent; current Philadelphia police commissioner
| Native of Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
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| State assemblyman for Wisconsin, Midwest Regional Administrator of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
| Born in Chicago
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| North Carolina politician, arts and women's rights advocate; first female state cabinet-level secretary in North Carolina
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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|align=right|
| State assemblyman for Wisconsin
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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|101x101px
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|U.S. senator for Nevada
|Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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| U.S. congressman, secretary of Defense
|
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| State assemblyman for Wisconsin
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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|118x118px
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|U.S. representative for Illinois
|Born in Chicago
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|107x107px
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|Perennial candidate for the Green Party in presidential elections and member of the Lexington, Massachusetts town meeting
|Born in Chicago
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| U.S. diplomat
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
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| Last Republican mayor of Chicago
| Lived and died in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
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| City treasurer; temperance advocate
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
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| First chairman of the People's Secretariat (i.e. prime minister) of the Belarusian National Republic
| Lived and died in Chicago
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|107x107px
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|U.S. representative for Michigan
|Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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| Secretary of state, minister to France
| Lived and died in Chicago
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| 80px
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| First black mayor of Chicago
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 80px
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| U.S. congressman; mayor of Chicago
| Lived and died in Chicago
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|Chair of the Republican Party of Arkansas
|Grew up in Jeffery Manor
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| Political theorist and philosopher
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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Religion
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| Christian television host, author, speaker
| Born in Chicago
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| 122nd Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East
| Born in Chicago and attended Loyola University Chicago
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| Gospel singer, author, pastor
| Born in Chicago
| align="center"|
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(aka Mother Cabrini)
| 80px
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| First citizen of the US to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church
| Lived and died in Chicago
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| 80px
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| Religious scholar and philosopher from Romania
| Lived and died in Chicago
| align="center"|
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| 20th-century evangelist
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| 80px
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| Minister, civil rights activist, presidential candidate
| Studied at Chicago Theological Seminary, engaged in Chicago-based civil rights work (e.g. Operation Breadbasket, Rainbow/PUSH)
| align="center"|
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(born Howard Stanton Levey)
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| Writer of The Satanic Bible; founder of The Church of Satan
| Born in Chicago
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|Pope Leo XIV
|80px
|Sep 14, 1955
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|Born Robert Francis Prevost; first pope from North America and from the United States
|Born and raised in Chicago through elementary school; attended Catholic Theological Union for Masters of Divinity
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| Franciscan friar and Roman Catholic bishop
| Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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| Missionary
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| Orthodox Judaism outreach worker in Jerusalem, director of the Jewish Student Information Center
| Born in Chicago
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| 80px
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| Jewish feminist rabbi and author
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|Winifred O. Whelan
|80px
| align="right" |Mar 5, 1931
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|Catholic sister, writer, academic, and Wikipedian.
|Born and lives in Chicago.
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Athletics
See also
- List of people from Illinois