Markers
of Distinction
|
Chicago
Tribute Markers 19972002
(click on name to link to marker text) |
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Newspaper publisher | 4742 South King Drive | |
Labor activists | 1922 South Halsted | |
Writer | 1958 West Evergreen Street | |
Lawyer and Governor of Illinois | 504 West Diversey Parkway | |
Community organizer | 4430 South Marshfield Avenue | |
Editor and writer | 837 West Ainslie Street | |
Bandleader | 421 East 44th Street | |
Writer | 1667 North Humboldt Boulevard | |
Businessman | 5922 South King Drive | |
Louise DeKoven Bowen |
Social
reformer
|
1430 North Astor Street |
Legal reformer | 1428 South Michigan Avenue | |
Architect and planner | 4300 South Michigan Avenue | |
Founder of religious institutions | 2520 North Lakeview Avenue | |
Octave Chanute |
Aeronaut
and civil engineer
|
224 East Huron |
Engineer | 933 North LaSalle Street | |
Nat "King" Cole |
Musician
|
4023 South Vincennes Avenue |
Aviatrix | 41st Street and King Drive | |
Lawyer | 1537 East 60th Street | |
Oscar DePriest |
Politician
|
4536 South King Drive |
Educator | 1554 East 61st Street | |
Musician | 7921 South Indiana Avenue | |
United States Senator | 5650 South Blackstone Avenue | |
United States Senator | 35th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue | |
Finley Peter Dunne |
Journalist
|
3109 West Warren Boulevard |
St. Clair Drake |
Sociologist
|
510 West Chesnut Street |
Novelist | 2023 East 72nd Street | |
Novelist | 1642 East 56th Street | |
Physicists and peace activists | 5337 South Woodlawn Avenue | |
Merchant | 1905 South Prairie Avenue | |
Social reformer | 1920 West Wellington Street | |
Baseball player and owner | 39th Street and Wentworth Avenue | |
R. Buckminster Fuller |
Inventor
|
739 West Belmont Avenue |
Mary Garden |
Opera
singer
|
636 South Michigan Avenue |
Musician | 1125 South Francisco Avenue | |
Football coach | 4356 West Washington Boulevard | |
Lorraine Hansberry |
Playwright
|
5936 South King Drive |
Librarian | 4801 South Michigan Avenue | |
Pearl M. Hart |
Lawyer
|
2821 North Pine Grove |
Writer | 5210 South Kenwood Avenue | |
Pioneers of social work | 800 South Halsted Street | |
Gospel singer | 8358 South. Indiana Avenue | |
Landscape architect | 1141 North Sacramento Boulevard | |
John Jones |
Abolitionist
|
119 South Dearborn |
Rudy Lozano |
Community
organizer
|
4030 West 25th Street |
Comedians | 4512 South King Drive | |
Social reformer | 4655 McDowell Avenue | |
Blues musician | 4339 South Lake Park Avenue | |
Inventor | 675 North Rush Street | |
Newspaper editor and publisher | 1519 North Astor Street | |
Journalist and mayor of Chicago | 639 North Wabash Avenue | |
Architect | 200 East Pearson Street | |
Artist and educator | 2622 North Lakeview Avenue | |
Poet and publisher | 543 North Wabash Avenue | |
Artist | 350 West 60th Street | |
Paul Muni |
Actor
|
714-16 West Roosevelt Road |
William Butler Ogden |
Politician
|
50 East Ontario |
Architect | 2310 South Indiana Avenue | |
Ruth Page |
Dancer
and choreographer
|
540 North Michigan Avenue |
Philanthropists and entrepreneurs | 1359 North Lake Shore Drive | |
Labor activists | 1908 North Mohawk Street | |
Irna Philips |
Writer
|
1335 North Astor Street |
Fur traders and farmers | 401 North Michigan Avenue | |
Industrialist | 1729 South Prairie Avenue | |
John Wellborn Root |
Architect
|
1310 North Astor Street |
Businessman, philanthropist | 4901 South Ellis Avenue | |
Writer and poet | 4646 North Hermitage Avenue | |
Basketball promoter | 3828 North Hermitage Avenue | |
Hannah Greenbaum Solomon |
Social
reformer
|
4060 South Lake Park Avenue |
Architect | 4575 South Lake Park Avenue | |
Artist | 60th Street and Ellis Avenue | |
Puppeteer | 1407 West Sherwin Avenue | |
Conductor | 52 East Bellvue Place | |
Bill Veeck | Baseball club owner | 1380 East Madison Avenue Park |
Businessman and preservationist | 6 North Michigan Avenue | |
Mayor | 5300 South Shore Drive | |
Social reformer | 3624 South King Drive | |
Elizabeth Wood | Housing reformer | 3145 North Cambridge Avenue |
Surgeon | 445 East 42nd Street | |
Architect | 25 East Cedar Street | |
Novelist, playwright, social critic | 3743 South Indiana Avenue | |