George Robert "Bob" Newhart (born September 5, 1929 in Oak Park, Illinois) is a Golden Globe Award-winning, Grammy Award-winning American stand-up comedian and actor.

Philip Caputo (born June 10 1941) is an American author and journalist. He is best-known for "A Rumor of War", a best-selling memoir of his experiences during the Vietnam War. Caputo was born in Westchester, Illinois and attended Fenwick High School and Loyola University Chicago. He now resides in Norwalk, Connecticut and Patagonia, Arizona. In 1965, as an infantry lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps, he was deployed to South Vietnam. He returned to the U.S. in 1966.

William "Bill" Rancic (born May 16, 1971) is an American entrepreneur who was the first candidate hired on national television by The Trump Organization at the conclusion of the first season of Donald Trump's reality business show, "The Apprentice". He is the first "Apprentice" winner.

Michael R. Quinlan is a graduate, and currently the chairman, of Loyola University Chicago. Quinlan served as a director of McDonald's Corporation, from 1979 until his retirement in 2002. He was the chairman of the board of directors of McDonald's from March 1990 to May 1999 and chief executive officer from March 1987 through July 1998.

Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954 in Chicago) is an American author and poet best known for her novel "The House on Mango Street". She is also the author of "Caramelo", published by Knopf in 2002. Much of her writing is influenced by her Mexican-American heritage. Her other published works include "Woman Hollering Creek" (1991), a book of short stories; three books of poetry, "Bad Boys" (1980), …

Jennifer Marie Morrison (born April 12, 1979 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress, model and film producer. She is best known for her role as Dr. Allison Cameron on the Fox drama, House, M.D.

Bill Plante (January 14, 1938-) is a veteran journalist and correspondent for CBS News, having joined the network in 1964. He has been the senior White House correspondent for CBS since January 1993 and reports regularly on "The Early Show" and the "CBS Evening News". He anchored "CBS Sunday Night News" from June 1988 to August 1995.

Brenda C. Barnes is the president, chairman and chief executive of Sara Lee, and previously was the first female CEO of Sara Lee. She has been listed in "Forbes" power rankings of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women since 2004. Barnes, a graduate of East Leyden High School, Augustana College and Loyola University, has moved Sara Lee's headquarters out of downtown Chicago to suburban Downers Grove.

Thomas M. Schoewe (born 1952) is currently the chief financial officer and executive vice president of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.. He has been with the company since taking his positions in January of 2000. Prior to joining Wal-Mart he was with Black and Decker where he held the same positions of CFO and executive vice president from 1993-1999. He attended Loyola University Chicago where he graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, …

The Reverend Michael Louis Pfleger (born May 22, 1949) is a Roman Catholic priest and social activist in Chicago, Illinois.

Edith Spurlock Sampson was an American lawyer and judge, and the first Black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.

John R. Powers is an American novelist and playwright. Powers has written four successful books, "The Last Catholic in America" (1973), "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?" (1975), "The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice Cream God" (1977), and "The Junk Drawer, Corner Store, Front Porch Blues" (1992). These books relate the experience of growing up in Chicago. He grew up on the city's south side.

Dr. Stephanie Pace Marshall is an educator and the founding president of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. She is also the founding president of the NCSSSMST. She is internationally recognized as a pioneer and innovative leader, teacher, speaker and writer on issues of leadership, learning and schooling, gifted and talented education, mathematics and science education, and the design of generative and life-affirming learning organizations.

Christina Kahrl is one of the co-founders of Baseball Prospectus. She is currently the managing editor of the think tank's website, BaseballProspectus.com, as well as their annual publication. She has co-edited several of the Baseball Prospectus annual books of forecasts and analysis and has been involved in the writing of every edition since the first in 1996 (for a list see Baseball Prospectus).

J. Dennis O'Connor is an American academic administrator. He has held executive positions at UCLA, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Smithsonian Institution, and the University of Maryland, College Park. He also served as the sixteenth Chancellor (1991-1995) of the University of Pittsburgh. A biologist, O'Connor was on the faculty at UCLA, serving as Dean of the Life Sciences for six years and Chair of the Department of Biology for two years.

LaShawn K. Ford is an Illinois state politician and real estate entrepreneur. He was elected in November 2006 as a Democratic Party state representative to the Illinois House of Representatives representing in the 8th district and took office in 2007. He is an alumnus of Loyola University Chicago.

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