Aaron Russo

Entertainer, film director, film producer of Trading Places, Wise Guys, The Rose, night club owner in Chicago, talent manager of Bette Midler
1943-2007 (64)

Al Capone

Prohibition era booze smuggler with Unione Siciliana, gangster aka Scarface, bank robber, mobster, bodyguard for Johnny Torrio, crime boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1925-1931, convicted and sent to federal prison at 33 years old for prostitution and tax evasion, died of a stroke and heart attack
1899-1947 (48)

Andrew Mason living

Entrepreneur, businessman, co-founder of Groupon, Descript
1980- (44)
britannica.com

Ann Landers

Journalist, pen name for columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times
annlanders.com

Arthur Koegel

Chairman of Koegel Coal Company

Arthur Wirtz

Liquor merchant, founder of Wirtz Beverage Group that is now Wirtz Corporation
1901-1983 (82)

Augustine Tolton

1st black Catholic priest in the USA
1854-1897 (43)

Bernice Neugarten

Psychologist, biological clock ticking, aging studies, social clock theory, midlife crisis, menopause
1916-2001 (85)
encyclopedia.com

Bernie Mac

Actor on the Bernie Mac Show, comedian

Bert Cohler

Professor, psychologist, psychoanalyst
1938-2012 (74)
humdev.uchicago.edu

Betty Ford

First Lady of the United States from 1974-1977, Republican wife of Gerald Ford, co-founder of the Betty Ford Center (Betty Ford Clinics) for substance abuse victims
1918-2011 (93)

Brad Purdy

CFO of Outcome Health (now PatientPoint), financier, indicted and charged with defrauding investors, mail fraud, bank fraud

Clarence Darrow

Criminal lawyer, attorney, murder trial of Leopold and Loeb, author of The Story of My Life
1857-1938 (81)

Curtis Mayfield

Soul musician, singer, songwriter
1942-1999 (57)

Diane Francis living

Editor-in-chief, journalist, writer for the National Post, Financial Post since 1998
1946- (78)
dianefrancis.com

Francis Fukuyama living

Political scientist, economist, writer, author of The Last Man, The End of History, and The Origins of Political Order
1952- (72)
fukuyama.stanford.edu

Fred Eychaner living

founder of Sportsvision, entrepreneur, businessman, founder and chairman of Newsweb since 1971, political donor, philanthropist, founder of Alphawood Foundation, inducted into the Chicago LGBTQ Hall of Fame
1945- (79)
chicagolgbthalloffame.org

Ginni Rometty living

Business executive, former chairman, President and CEO at IBM from 2012-2020
1957- (67)
ibm.com

Helen Zell

Executive director of the Zell Family Foundation

Henry Crown

industrialist, philanthropist, founder of Material Service Corporation in 1919 which merged with General Dynamics in 1959
1896-1990 (94)

Ian Maksin

Music composer, cellist, musician
ianmaksin.com

Ida B. Wells

Investigative journalist, civil rights activist
1862-1931 (69)

James S. Crown

chairman emeritus of the Aspen Institute, financier, chairman and CEO of Henry Crown & Company, managing partner at Aspen Skiing, director at General Dynamics since 1987, Sara Lee, JPMorgan Chase, General Dynamics, died on his birthday in a raceway/racecar crash in 2023
1953-2023 (70)
aspeninstitute.org

Jami Miscik living

head of sovereign risk at Lehman Brothers in 2005, vice-chairman and CEO of Kissinger Associates in 2009, vice-chair of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), co-chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), CIA intelligence officer since 1983, director at Morgan Stanley, EMC, Pivotal Labs, In-Q-Tel, American Ditchley Foundation
1958- (66)
allgov.com

Jay Pritzker

entrepreneur, co-founder of the Marmon Group, co-founder and patriarch of the Hyatt family dynasty
1922-1999 (77)

John McDonough living

Sports executive, former President and CEO of Chicago Blackhawks, former President of Chicago Cubs
1953- (71)

John Podesta living

Political strategist aka Skippy, US chief of staff from 1998-2001, counselor to President Obama from 2014-2015, known for the Podesta emails with Hillary Clinton
1949- (75)

John S. Reed living

chairmand & CEO of Citibank (Citicorp), visionary banker, pioneer in digital surveillance, former chairman of the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange), author of Usable Social Science
1939- (85)
systemicriskcouncil.org

Jonathan Nolan living

Film director, film producer, filmmaker of Interstellar, Fallout, Memento, The Prestige, TV producer of Person of Interest (CBS), co-creator of Westworld (HBO)
1976- (48)

Dr. Kenneth Cooper

Father of Cooper Aerobics, father of aerobics
cooperaerobics.com

Kirk Cousins

Professional football player
kirkcousins.org

Leo Radvinsky living

Billionaire owner of 75% of OnlyFans, CEO of MyFreeCams (Mfcxy, Inc.) which is one of the world's largest adult webcams community, founder of Cybertania (Password Universe, Working Passes, Ultra Passwords), tech entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist, owner of Stars.com
1982- (42)
lr.com

Louella Parsons

Celebrity gossip columnist, writer, journalist

Marshall Field V

real estate, media mogul

Mezz Mezzrow

Jazz musician, clarinetist, saxophonist

Michael Clarke Duncan

Bodybuilder
1957-2012 (55)

Michael Madigan living

Democratic Party politician, former Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives between 1983-2021, mobster, leader of the Chicago mafia
1942- (82)
ilga.gov

Morris Fishbein

Physician, destroyed Rife machines, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association from 1924-1950
1889-1976 (87)

Pat Ryan living

Billionaire financier, founder of Ryan Specialty Group, wholesale specialty insurance brokerage, philanthropist, largest ever single donation of $480 million to Northwestern University
1937- (87)

Pat Sajak

TV host for Wheel of Fortune since 1981

Paul Ricca

Chicago Outfit, Chicago national crime syndicate, convicted of murder, extortion, tax evasion
1897-1972 (75)
britannica.com

Quentin Young, M.D.

Physician, doctor, Civil Rights Movement, Communist Party
1923-2016 (93)

Rawleigh Warner Jr.

chairman and CEO of Mobil from 1969-1986, prior president of Mobil from 1965-1969
1921-2013 (92)

Richard E. Roeper living

Movie critic, columnist, famous as Ebert & Roeper
1959- (65)
richardroeper.com

Rishi Shah

Co-Founder & CEO of Outcome Health (now PatientPoint), indicted and charged with defrauding investors, mail fraud, bank fraud

Robert Galvin

Chairman of Motorola

Rocky Wirtz

Billionaire sports team owner, NHL hockey team owner of the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team since 1954, founder of Wirtz Corporation started as a liquor beverage company by his grandfather Arthur Wirtz
1952-2023 (71)
breakthrubev.com

Roger Ebert

Movie critic, famous as Siskel & Ebert, and then Ebert & Roeper
1942-2013 (71)

Sam Zell

billionaire financier, investor, founder and chairman of Equity Group Investments (Equity Residential, Equity International, EQ Office, Tribune Media, Anixter, Covanta), philanthropist, attorney, lawyer, real estate developer, philanthropist, author of Am I Being Too Subtle?
1941-2023 (82)
egizell.com

Saul D. Alinsky

Marxist political theorist, criminologist, political activist, community activist, communist politician, inventor of political theater and the great game, author of Rules for Radicals
1909-1972 (63)

Shirley Ryan

Philanthropist wife of specialty insurer Pat Ryan, chairwoman of the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Foundation
alumni.northwestern.edu

Shradha Agarwal

Co-Founder & COO of Outcome Health (now PatientPoint), indicted and charged with defrauding investors, mail fraud, bank fraud

Thomas Siebel living

Billionaire, chairman and CEO of C3.ai, founder of Siebel Systems, conservative political activist, donated $90K to the truckers freedom convoy in 2022
1952- (72)

Todd Ricketts living

businessman, politician, sports team owner, co-owner of the Chicago Cubs
1969- (55)
toddmricketts.com

Tom Rosenberg

Film producer of Million Dollar Baby, founder and chairman of Lakeshore Entertainment, co-founder of Beacon Pictures

H. Ty Warner living

Billionaire, real estate, founder of Beanie Babies plush toys
1944- (80)

Ted Kaczynski aka "The Unabomber"

mathematics professor aka Uncle Ted Kaczynski, The Unabomber, geometric function theory, anit-technology, environmentalist, anarchist, domestic terrorist, anonymous killer, author of The Net, Unabomber Manifesto
fbi.gov

William S. Paley

Businessman, media executive, founder, president & CEO of Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)

Ye living

Rapper aka Kanye West, singer, husband to Kim Kardashian, music producer for Roc-A-Fella Records
1977- (47)

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