[edit] Before 1940
- Jane Addams, social work
- George Ade, author
- Dankmar Adler, architect
- Nelson Algren, author
- John Peter Altgeld, politics, Dem
- Philip Danforth Armour, business
- Louis Armstrong, music
- Edward Beecher, religion
- Lydia Moss Bradley, philanthropy
- Daniel H. Burnham, architect
- Joe Cannon, politics, GOP
- Anton Cermak, politics, Dem
- John Coughlin, politics, Dem
- Clarence Darrow, law
- John Dewey, philosophy
- Stephen Douglas, politics, Dem
- Finley Peter Dunne, author
- Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, settler
- Ninian Edwards, politics
- James T. Farrell, author
- Theodore Dreiser, author
- Eugene Field, author
- Marshall Field, business
- Marshall Field III, business
- Thomas Ford, politics, Dem
- John T. Frederick, literature
- Lyman J. Gage, business
- Ulysses S. Grant, military
- Red Grange, sports
- Frank W. Gunsaulus, education
- William Rainey Harper, education
- Carter Harrison, Sr., politics, Dem
- Carter Harrison, Jr., politics, Dem
- George Peter Alexander Healy, artist
- Ben Hecht, author
- William Holabird, architect
- Raymond Hood, architect
- Henry Horner, politics, Dem
- Robert Maynard Hutchins, education
- Robert G. Ingersoll, religion
- Samuel Insull, business
- William Le Baron Jenney, architect
- Leslie Keeley, medicine
- Florence Kelley, social work
- John Kinzie, settler
- Frank Knox, newspapers
- William Kohlsaat, newspapers
- René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, explorer
- Victor Lawson, newspapers
- Abraham Lincoln, politics, Whig, GOP
- Mary Todd Lincoln, Lincoln's wife
- Robert Todd Lincoln, Lincoln's son
- Vachel Lindsay, author
- John A. Logan, politics, Dem, GOP
- Frank Orren Lowden, politics, GOP
- Cyrus Hall McCormick, business
- Robert R. McCormick, newspapers
- James Robert Mann, politics, GOP
- Edgar Lee Masters, author
- Joseph Medill, newspapers
- Charles E. Merriam, education
- Harriet Monroe, poet
- Dwight L. Moody, religion
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- William Vaughn Moody, author
- George Cardinal Mundelein, religion
- William Butler Ogden, business
- Richard James Oglesby, politics, GOP
- John M. Palmer, politics, GOP, Dem
- Potter Palmer, business
- Phoebe Palmer, society
- Francis W. Parker, education
- John Mason Peck, author
- George M. Pullman, business
- Henry T. Rainey, politics, Dem
- John Root, architect
- Julius Rosenwald, business
- Benjamin Rusk, medicine
- Ann Rutledge, friend of Lincoln
- Edward Wyllis Scripps, newspapers
- Richard W. Sears, business
- Albion W. Small, sociology
- Joseph Smith, religion
- John Spalding, religion
- Amos Alonzo Stagg, sports
- Ellen Gates Starr, social work
- Bernard Shiel, religion
- Melville E. Stone, newspapers
- Adlai Stevenson, politics; Vice President, Dem
- Gustavus Franklin Swift, business
- Graham Taylor, social work
- Theodore Thomas, conductor
- Lyman Trumbull, politics, Dem, GOP, Dem
- Jonathan Turner, education
- Aaron Montgomery Ward, business
- John Wentworth, politics, Dem
- Frances E. Willard, social activist
- Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
- Richard Yates, politics, GOP
- Charles Yerkes, business
[edit] Recent
- John Bardeen (1908-1991) winner of two Nobel prizes in physics
- Joseph Cardinal Bernardin (1928-1996), religion, Cardinal for the Archdiocese of Chicago
- Richard J. Daley (1902-1976), Chicago mayor (1955-1976); Democrat
- Richard M. Daley (born 1942), Chicago mayor (1989-present), son of Richard J. Daley; Democrat
- Everett Dirksen (1896-1969), politics, United States Senator, Senate Minority Leader, Republican
- Roger Ebert (1942-present), film critic
- Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), nuclear physics
- Andrew Greeley (born 1928), author; religion; sociology
- George Halas, (1895-1983) sports, co-founder of National Football League and longtime coach-owner of the Chicago Bears
- Dennis Hastert, Republican, Speaker of the U.S. House, 1998-2006
- Fazlur Khan (1929-1982), structural engineer
- Robert H. Michel, (born 1923), politics, longtime member of Congress and former House Minority Leader, Republican
- Wayne Nelson, (born 1950) musician from classic rock's Little River Band
- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), 40th President of the United States, Republican
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), architect
- William Shockley, (1910-1989), physicist invented transistor
- Adlai Stevenson II (1908-1965), politician, Presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956, Democrat
- Micheal Jordan
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