Notable People from Illinois

John Couleur

Alfred B. Fitt

American lawyer

Philip Brownstein

American basketball player and coach

Arnold Doren

American photographer

Frances Ellen Baker

American mathematician (1902-1995)

Nan Dieter-Conklin

American radio astronomer

Florence Lewis

American activist

Max Flack

American baseball player

June Taylor

American choreographer

Arthur Maling

American writer

Scribner Ames

American painter (1908-1993)

Chic Harley

American football player (1894-1974)

John Morton Eshleman

American politician (1876-1916)

Anthony Adducci

Inventor and entrepreneur

George Fiske

sport shooter

Stu Kennedy

American historian

Inman Jackson

American basketball player

Bernard Epton

American politician (1921-1987)

Allan R. Wagner

American psychologist (1934-2018)

Hap Hadley

American illustrator (1895–1976)

Andy the Clown

American clown

Joan Gardner

American voice actress (1926-1992)

Joseph Zeller

American politician in Pennsylvania (1918-2018)

Beverly Grigsby

American composer and musicologist

Eva Ingersoll Brown

(1863-1928) American suffragist and social activist

Joanne Winter

Baseball player, professional golfer

Thomas Joseph Grady

Catholic bishop

Walter Berns

American political theorist (1919–2015)

Vincent Drucci

American mobster (1901-1927)

Bill Tuttle

American baseball player

Joe Astroth

American baseball player

Andy Scrivani

American boxer (1917-2015)

Joseph J. McCarthy

Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient (1911-1996)

Chuck Nergard

American politician (1929-2017)

R. W. B. Lewis

American literary critic (1917-2002)

John McAuley Palmer

United States Army general (1870–1955)

Charles Berger

American baseball player (1882-1954)

Bram Goldsmith

American banker

Andy High

American baseball player (1897-1981)

Elmer Grey

American architect and artist

Boyce Brown

American musician

Sidney Korshak

American lawyer (1907–1996)

Joel J. Kupperman

American philosopher

Stirling Dickinson

American painter (1909-1998)

Margaret Foster Richardson

American painter (1881–1945)

John F. Burke

American medical researcher

Joseph Carroll

United States general

Howard Alk

American filmmaker

Dick Holmberg

Olympic sailor

George Cohen

George Cohen; b. 1919, Chicago; d. 1999, Chicago; studied at the University of Chicago; professor in the art department at Northwestern University (1919–1999)