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Franklin Pierce Adams author, Chicago Jane Addams social worker, Cedarville Gillian Anderson actress, Chicago Mary Astor actress, Quincy Arnold O. Beckman inventor, Cullom Jack Benny comedian, Chicago Black Hawk Sauk Indian chief Harry A. Blackmun jurist, Nashville William E. Borah public official, Fairfield Ray Bradbury author, Waukegan William Jennings Bryan orator, politician, Salem Edgar Rice Burroughs author, Chicago Marvin Camras inventor, Chicago Jennie Garth actress, Urbana Gower Champion choreographer, Geneva John Chancellor TV commentator, Chicago Raymond Chandler writer, Chicago Jimmy Connors tennis champion, East St. Louis James Gould Cozzens author, Chicago Cindy Crawford model, DeKalb Richard J. Daley mayor, Chicago Miles Davis musician, Alton Walt Disney film animator, producer, Chicago John Dos Passos author, Chicago James T. Farrell author, Chicago Harrison Ford actor, Chicago Betty Friedan feminist, Peoria Benny Goodman musician, Chicago John Gunther author, Chicago George E. Hale astronomer, Chicago Dorothy Hamill ice skater, Chicago Ernest Hemingway author, Oak Park John M. Harlan jurist, Chicago Charlton Heston actor, Evanston Wild Bill Hickok scout, Troy Grove William Holden actor, O'Fallon Rock Hudson actor, Winnetka Burl Ives singer, Hunt City James Jones author, Robinson Quincy Jones composer, Chicago Walter Kerr drama critic, Evanston Archibald MacLeish poet, Glencoe David Mamet playwright, Chicago Homer Z. Martin inventor, Chicago Stanley Mazor inventor, Chicago Robert A. Millikan physicist, Morrison Sherrill Milnes baritone, Downers Grove Bill Murray actor, Wilmette John G. Neihardt poet, Sharpsburg Bob Newhart actor, comedian, Chicago Frank Norris author, Chicago William S. Paley broadcasting executive, Chicago Drew Pearson columnist, Evanston Richard Pryor comedian, actor, Peoria Ronald Reagan U.S. president, actor, Tampico Carl Sandburg poet, Galesburg Lewis Hastings Sarett inventor, Champaign Sam Shepard playwright, Fort Sheridan William L. Shirer author, historian, Chicago McLean Stevenson actor, Bloomington Preston Sturges director, Chicago Clyde W. Tombaugh astronomer, Streator Gloria Swanson actress, Chicago Carl Van Doren writer, educator, Hope Melvin Van Peebles playwright, Chicago Irving Wallace author, Chicago Alfred Wallenstein conductor, Chicago Raquel Welch actress, Chicago Florenz Ziegfield theatrical producer, Chicago