Harold ("Hal") Rudolf Foster (August 18, 1892 in Halifax, Nova Scotia - July 25, 1982) was a Canadian-American cartoonist most famous as the creator of the comic strip "Prince Valiant". He worked as a staff artist for the Hudson Bay Company and moved to Chicago in 1919, where he studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He subsequently worked as an illustrator before getting involved with "Tarzan", an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's novels.

Ruth VanSickle Ford was an American painter, art teacher, and owner of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Born to Anna Miller, a German immigrant, and Charles P. VanSickle, of Dutch heritage, Ruth was an only child and grew up on the west side of Aurora, Illinois. She attended Mary A. Todd Grade School and West Aurora High School. Immediately following high school she enrolled at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied under Carl Newland Werntz from 1915–1918.

Frank King (April 9, 1883 - June 24, 1969) was an American cartoonist most famous for the comic strip "Gasoline Alley".

Ruth Etting was an American singing star of the 1930s, who had over sixty hit recordings. Her signature tunes were "Shine On Harvest Moon", "Ten Cents a Dance" and "Love Me or Leave Me", and her other popular recordings included "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Mean to Me", "Exactly like you", and "Shaking the Blues Away".

Mainbocher (1891-1976) (born Main Rousseau Bocher) was an American couturier who operated fashion houses in Paris and later New York from the 1930s through the 1960s. He is best known for designing Wallis Simpson's wedding dress and trousseau for her 1937 marriage to the former Edward VIII (the Duke of Windsor) which was photographed by Cecil Beaton Mainbocher was a native of Chicago, …

John Churchill Chase (1905 - 1986) was a cartoonist and writer. He was known for his editorial cartoons and his works on the history of his native New Orleans and Louisiana in the United States. After high school in New Orleans, Chase attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He worked as assistant cartoonist to Frank King at the Chicago Tribune on the popular comic strip "Gasoline Alley" and other cartoons, …

Santiago Martinez Delgado Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Santiago Martínez established his reputation as the most prominent muralist in Colombia and during the 1940’s, he is also known for his masterfull watercolors, illustartions and wood carvings. He attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts under the tutoring of Ruth VanSickle Ford, in 1933 was awarded the Logan Medal of the arts for a mural at the Chicago International Fair Century of Progress.

Albert Bloch was an American Modernist artist and the only American artist associated with Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider), a group of early 20th-century European modernists. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He first studied art at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. Between 1905 and 1908 he worked as a caricaturist and illustrator for William Marion Reedy’s literary and political weekly "The Mirror". From 1909 to 1921, Bloch lived and worked mainly in Germany.

George Booth (born June 28, 1926) is a "New Yorker" cartoonist. Born in Cainsville, Missouri, he was the son of schoolteachers; his mother was also a musician and fine artist and cartoonist, and his father became a school administrator in Fairfax, Missouri, where Booth grew up on a vegetable farm. Booth attended, but did not graduate from, the Corcoran College of Art and Design, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, the School of Visual Arts, and Adelphi College.

William Morgan "Billy" De Beck (April 15, 1890 - November 11, 1942) was a popular and very widely published cartoonist as well as a writer. He created some of the most memorable comic strip characters of the 1920s and 1930s, including Barney Google, Bunky, Snuffy Smith, and the racehorse Spark Plug. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised there, where he eventually studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. De Beck was drawing cartoons by 1910.

Roy Thomas Brown (July 8,1932-January 22,2001) was an American television personality, puppeteer, clown and artist best known for playing "Cooky the Cook" on Chicago's long running "Bozo's Circus" and "The Bozo Show." Roy Brown was born in Tucson, Arizona but had lived in the Chicago area since he was a boy.

William Victor Higgins was an American painter and teacher, born at Shelbyville, Ind. He studied at the Art Institute in Chicago and at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In Paris he was a pupil of Robert Henri, René Menard and Lucien Simon, and when he was in Munich he studied with Hans von Hyeck. He was an associate of the National Academy. He moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1914 and joined the Taos Society of Artists in 1915.

Margaret Brundage, born Margaret Hedda Johnson (December 9, 1900 - April 9, 1976) was an American illustrator and painter who is remembered chiefly for having illustrated the pulp magazine "Weird Tales". Working in pastels on illustration board, she created most of the covers for "Weird Tales" between 1933 and 1938.

Geof "Geofrey" Darrow (October 21, 1955) is a comic artist and designer born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. He was a student at Hanna-Barbera cartoon studios after studying at the American Academy of Arts in Chicago. In the early 80s he worked in character design for the "Super Friends", "Richie Rich", and "Pac-Man" television series. In 1982, he met French comic book writer and artist Moebius during the making of the film "Tron".

Robert Lee Eskridge was an American genre painter, muralist and illustrator. He was born on Nov. 22, 1891 in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania. Eskridge moved with his family to Pasadena as a child. He studied at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles College of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and with George Senseney and André Lhote in Paris. After traveling extensively in Spain and the South Seas, he lived in Chicago, …

Melodye Prentiss (nee Panchesin, born 14 December 1944 in Chicago, Illinois) was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar. Melodye was working in the "Playboy" editorial library when she was "discovered" by the magazine as Playmate material. She studied fine art and painting at both the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Chicago.

Betty F. Bumpers is founder and president of Peace Links, Washington, D.C., organized in 1982 to involve mainstream, grassroots citizens in activities that promote alternatives to violence. During her husband's tenure as governor of Arkansas, Bumpers was the leader of a successful immunization program for children, later adopted by governor's wives from other states, including Rosalynn Carter.

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Carey Orr (1890-1967) A native Ohian and semiprofessional baseball pitcher in his youth, Carey Orr took the money he earned from baseball and enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. After a humble first newspaper job with the Chicago Examiner at fifteen dollars per week, Orr, at the age of twenty-four, joined the Nashville Tennessean as a full-time editorial cartoonist.

Perren (Pesach) Gerber attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts after high school and the School of Visual Arts in New York City after his time in the Service. He has worked as an engineer, draftsman, cartoonist, illustrator, exhibit/display designer and manufacturer, commercial sculptor and collectible designer- artist. Presently, he produces sculpture, drawings and paintings for the four art galleries around the country that represent him.