Businesspeople from Illinois

Edward S. "Ted" Kress (March 26, 1931 – February 15, 2003) was an American football player and businessman.

William Zeckendorf, Sr.

Chip Thomson is an American entrepreneur, inventor, golf instructor, actor, writer, radio and television personality.

Donald E. "Crutch" Carothers (May 13, 1934 – September 19, 2008) was an American football offensive end who played one season with the Denver Broncos of the American Football League (AFL).

Robert Hugh McClellan (January 3, 1823 – July 23, 1902) was an American politician, attorney, and banker from New York City.

Alfred Miles Jones (February 5, 1837 – July 8, 1910), nicknamed "Long" Jones, was an American politician and businessman.

Asahel Gridley (April 21, 1810 – January 25, 1881) was an American politician, lawyer, merchant, and banker.

Daniel Raymond Burt February 29, 1804 - January 7, 1884) was an American legislator and businessman.

Ivory Quinby (14 July 1817 – 23 October 1869) was an American businessman who was notably one of the earliest benefactors of Monmouth College, and also helped establish Monmouth, Illinois as a transportation center.

Chespin K. Stranzcek (November 19, 1929 – September 5, 2015) was an American businessman, politician, and former Minor League Baseball player who was the mayor of Crestwood, Illinois, for 39 years, from 1969-2007.

Larry Robbins (born 1969) is the American founder, portfolio manager, and CEO of Glenview Capital Management, a hedge fund with approximately $9.

William Alexander McClam, known by his stage name TooSmooth, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and entrepreneur.

James Richard "Jim" Cantalupo (November 14, 1943 – April 19, 2004) was an American businessman.

Adam Andrzejewski (/ændʒiːˈɛfski/ an-jee-EF-skee; born August 2, 1969) is a businessman and government watchdog from the town of Herscher, Illinois and now resides in Hinsdale, Illinois.

Augustus Louis Chetlain (December 26, 1824 – March 15, 1914) was a United States Army soldier – the first man in Illinois to volunteer at the outbreak of the American Civil War.

John W. Cox Jr. (born July 10, 1947) is an American politician who was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for one term.

John Whitfield Bunn (June 21, 1831 – June 7, 1920) was an American corporate leader, financier, industrialist, and personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, whose work and leadership involved a broad range of institutions ranging from Midwestern railroads, international finance, and Republican Party politics, to corporate consultation, globally significant manufacturing, and the various American stock exchanges.

Jonathan Luther Jackson (born January 7, 1966) is an American business professor, entrepreneur and social justice advocate.

Paula Beth Begoun (born November 14, 1953), also known as "The Cosmetics Cop", is an American talk radio host, author, and businesswoman.

Alexander Campbell (October 4, 1814 – August 8, 1898) was an Illinois businessman, a member of the US House of Representatives, and a theorist of the Greenback movement.

Bernard Albert Eckhart (1848 – May 11, 1931) was a French-American miller, merchant, and politician.

William P. Levine (July 1, 1915 – March 29, 2013) was a United States Army officer.

Nehemiah H. Bushnell (October 9, 1813 – January 31, 1873) was an American attorney, railroad president, and politician from Connecticut.

John Clark Dore (March 22, 1822 – December 14, 1900) was an American educator and politician from New Hampshire.

Robert Moulton "Bob" Ely (born 1958) is an American entrepreneur and former investment banker.

Erwin F. Dygert (c.1895 - August 5, 1962) was an importer of horses into the United States.

Kate Cloonen (born July 09, 1954) is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 79th District since 2013.

William James Campbell (December 12, 1850 – March 4, 1896) was an American attorney and politician from Pennsylvania.

Lloyd Sumner "Shorty" Burdick (August 8, 1909 – August 9, 1945) was an American football tackle who played three seasons in the National Football League with the Chicago Bears and Cincinnati Reds.

John B. Terry (January 18, 1796 – January 11, 1874) was an American pioneer, merchant, soldier, and territorial legislator.

Perry Austin Armstrong (April 15, 1823 – December 23, 1904) was a business person, surveyor, attorney, two-time member of the Illinois House of Representatives and historian.

Martin Peter Wendell (November 22, 1926 – March 7, 2012) was an American football guard who played one season with the Chicago Hornets of the All-America Football Conference.

Edward Thomas Mieszkowski (October 14, 1925 – February 15, 2004) was an American football tackle who played two seasons with the Brooklyn Dodgers of the All-America Football Conference.

Chuck Weaver is a Republican member of the Illinois Senate for the 37th senate district, appointed in October 2015.

Robert Nimrod "Bob" Miner (December 23, 1941 – November 11, 1994) was an American businessman.

Robert "Bob" Greenblatt (born 1960) is an American television executive and currently the chairman of NBC Entertainment.

William Brown McKinley (September 5, 1856 – December 7, 1926) was a United States Representative and United States Senator from the State of Illinois.

Andy Skoog is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives representing the 76th district since his appointment in December 2015 to replace Frank Mautino.

Adolphus Clay Bartlett (June 22, 1844 – June 1, 1922) was an American industrialist, the president of the Hibbard Spencer Bartlett & Company, the company that originated the label True Value.

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials, MJ, is an American retired professional basketball player.

Eugene Dietzgen (1862–1929) was the first son of socialist philosopher Joseph Dietzgen, born in Germany.

Frank Edwards (born 1950) was a Mayor of Springfield, Illinois.

Frederick Hinde Zimmerman (October 17, 1864 – September 21, 1924) was an American banker, farmer, real estate entrepreneur, businessman, and hotel owner.

George Fabyan (1867 – 1936) was a millionaire businessman who founded a private research laboratory.

John Corson Smith (February 13, 1832 – December 31, 1910) was an American general and politician from Pennsylvania.

William A. Marovitz (born September 29, 1944) is an American lawyer and politician who was involved in real estate in Chicago and was married to Christie Hefner from 1995-2013.

John S. Gleason Jr.

James "Jimmy" John Liautaud (January 12, 1964) is the founder, chairman, and majority owner of Jimmy John’s sandwich chain.

Ariel Zev "Ari" Emanuel (born March 29, 1961) is an American talent agent and the co-CEO of William Morris Endeavor (WME), an entertainment and media agency.

Harry Wayne Huizenga (/haɪˈzɛŋɡə/, born December 29, 1937) is an American businessman and entrepreneur.

Monroe Heath (March 27, 1827 – October 21, 1894) was a U.

Nelson Joosuk Chai (born 1965) is an American investment banker and financial executive.

Neville Roy Singham (born May 13, 1954) is the founder and chairman of ThoughtWorks, a privately owned global IT consultancy that delivers custom software, software tools, and consulting services to Global 1000 companies.

Roger Charles Sullivan (February 3, 1861 - April 14, 1920), was a member of the Cook County Democratic Organization during the early twentieth century.

Robert Todd "Bobby" Schilling (born January 23, 1964) is a former U.

John Cunningham Whitehead (April 2, 1922 – February 7, 2015) was an American banker and civil servant, and a board member of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation (WTC Memorial Foundation) and, until his resignation in May 2006, chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.

Jeffrey Keith "Jeff" Skilling (born November 25, 1953) is the former CEO of the Enron Corporation, headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Shalom Klein is an entrepreneur from Skokie, Illinois.

Douglas R. Oberhelman (born February 25, 1953) is an American businessman.

George William "Bill" Foster (born October 7, 1955) is an American physicist, businessman and U.

Thomas Lowry (February 27, 1843 – February 4, 1909) was a lawyer, real-estate magnate, and businessman who oversaw much of the early growth of the streetcar lines in the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis, St.

Robert William "Bob" Galvin (October 9, 1922 – October 11, 2011) was a US executive.

Robert Louis Johnson (born April 8, 1946) is an American businessman, media magnate, executive, philanthropist and investor.

Albert C. "Al" White (born June 22, 1950) is a Republican former member of the Colorado Senate.

John Wilson Shaffer (July 5, 1827 – October 31, 1870) was an American politician and businessman.

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David Blakeney Speer (April 6, 1951 – November 17, 2012) was an American businessman, best known as the CEO of Illinois Tool Works from 2005-2012.

Earnest Elmo Calkins (March 15, 1868 – October 4, 1964) was a deaf American advertising executive who pioneered the use of art in advertising, of fictional characters, the soft sell, and the idea of "consumer engineering".

Jheri Redding (born Robert William Redding March 2, 1907 – March 15, 1998) was anAmerican hairdresser, chemist, hair care products entrepreneur and businessman.

Christopher Reyes (born 1954) is the co-chairman, with his brother Jude Reyes, of Reyes Holdings, a beer and food distribution holding company, ranked by Forbes magazine in 2012 as the 14th largest privately held company in the United States.

J. Michael "Mike" Houston (born 1944) was a mayor of Springfield, Illinois.

James A. Bell (born June 4, 1948 in Los Angeles, California) was formerly the President, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of The Boeing Company.

JoAnn D. Osmond is a former Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 61st district from 2002 to 2014.

William "Sam" McCann (born November 4, 1969) is the Republican member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 50th district in the central Illinois.

Sharon Tyndale (January 19, 1816 – April 29, 1871) was the Secretary of State of Illinois, United States, from 1865 to 1869.