- male, deceased (1828)
- John Kinzie is known as Chicago’s first permanent white settler. Kinzie Street (400N) in Chicago is named after him. Kinzie was born in Quebec Ci...
- male, deceased (1813)
- Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable (1730s - August 28, 1818) was the first known settler in the area which is now Chicago, Illinois. He was long ignored...
- male, deceased (1940)
- Henry Horner was a Democrat governor of Illinois, serving from 1933 to 1940. He died in office. First elected in 1932, Horner served during the...
- male, deceased (1877)
- William Butler Ogden (June 15 1805 - August 3 1877) was the first Mayor of Chicago. Ogden was born in Walton, New York. When still a teenager, his...
- male, deceased (1938)
- John Alexander Low Waddell (1854-1938, often shortened to J.A.L. Waddell and sometimes known as John Alexander Waddell) was an American civil...
- male, deceased (1917)
- George Huntington Hartford founded The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company in 1859 with George Gilman in Elmira, New York. He was born in...
- male, deceased (1848)
- Augustus Garrett (1801 - November 30 1848; buried in Rosehill Cemetery) twice served as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1843-1844, 1845-1846) for the...
- male
- Joseph Naper (1798-1862) was a shipbuilder, politician, and businessman. Born in Vermont, Naper traveled with his parents during his youth to...
- male, deceased (1929)
- William Emmett Dever (March 13, 1862-September 3, 1929) served as the Democratic mayor of Chicago, Illinois, USA from 1923 to 1927. Dever was born...
- male, deceased (1904)
- Atterdag Wermelin was a Swedish revolutionary socialist, writer and poet, a pioneer of the labor movement, who together with August Palm introduced...
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