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Jun 12, 1972. Community organizer and writer; considered to be the founder of modern community organizing. Born in Chicago. [3] Myrtle Bachelder. Mar 13, 1908. May 22, 1997. Metals chemist and Women's Army Corps officer; worked on the Manhattan Project. University of Chicago professor; lived and died in Chicago.
Fictional characters from Chicago (5 C, 107 P) Pages in category "People from Chicago" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 718 total.
Lived in Chicago Joe Becker (musician) Jun 23, 1976: Guitarist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Born in Chicago Taylor Bennett: Jan 19, 1996: Rapper Born in Chicago Franz Benteler: 1925: 2010: Violinist, "Ambassador of Music for Chicago" Lived in Chicago Andrew Bird: Jul 11, 1973: Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Born in ...
Studied law and had his newspaper career in Chicago. [3] Jessica Abel (1969–living), comic book writer and artist. Born and educated in Illinois. [4] Gertrude Abercrombie (1909–77), surrealist painter. Lived most of her life in Chicago and known for her association with the city. [5] Max Abramovitz (1908–2004), architect. Born and college ...
GNIS feature ID. 0428803. Website. chicago.gov. Chicago[a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census, [9] it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.
James M. Redfield (A.B. 1954, Ph.D. 1961) – Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (1976–present) Albert Rees (Ph.D. 1950) – former University of Chicago and Princeton economics professor, former Provost at Princeton, advisor to President Gerald Ford [53]
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy – LGBT rights activist and former executive director at the Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project who was present at the pivotal Stonewall riots in 1969 [12] Jean Hardisty – activist who founded Political Research Associates and Chicago's first battered women's shelter [13]
Brandon Johnson (born March 27, 1976) [1] is an American educator and politician who has served as the 57th Mayor of Chicago since 2023. [2][3][4] A member of the Democratic Party, Johnson previously served on the Cook County Board of Commissioners from 2018 to 2023, representing the 1st district. Johnson was first elected to the Cook County ...