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CHICAGO

Most Famous People Born in Chicago, USA

Notable people

7,467

Peak decade

1950s

Median birth year

1940

Most distinctive

Baseball 5.2×

Big shoulders, broad bench. Chicago's notables are spread evenly across actors, politicians, four major-league sports, and a music economy that has produced everyone from house DJs to first-wave rappers — without any single category dominating the way film does in Los Angeles or Wall Street does in New York. The city's distinctive professions still carry a whiff of the old machine politics: aldermen, mobsters, gangsters, restaurateurs.