Sherwood Anderson
Midwestern novelist & short story writer
Arts Club of Chicago
Pro-Modernist private club & public exhibition space
Board of Trade
British advisors to the king on trade
Slim Brundage
Social activist, Beat writer & poet
Fanny Butcher
Chicago literary critic & author
Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Writer of romantic historical fiction
Jack Conroy
Author of proletarian literature
Clarence Darrow
Renowned trial lawyer & free speech activist
Eugene V. Debs
Labor organizer & Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president
Martin J. Feenan
U.S. soldier during the Civil War
Ben Hecht
Chicago & NY journalist, novelist, playwright & Hollywood screenwriter
Antoinette Putnam Metcalf
Teacher, wife & mother of 12
Isaac Stevens Metcalf
Midwestern railroad engineer, farmer & businessman
Marion Metcalf
Teacher, family caregiver & congregant
Julia Newberry
Gilded Age Chicago heiress
Anna Sophie Raster
Daughter of newspaper editor & wife of architect
José Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer & polymath
Daniel D. Rogers
New York coroner & justice of the peace
George Ruxton
Author & explorer
Charles Févret de Saint-Mémin Bénigne
Father of French portrait painter Charles Saint-Mémin
Mark J. Satter
Chicago lawyer & civil rights activist
Frances Wells Shaw
Chicago traveler, poet & playwright
William Earl Smith
Frontier soldier
Charles S. Stobie
Painter, portrait artist & Western frontier scout
Graham Taylor
Minister & Chicago Commons settlement house founder
May Walden
Socialist Party activist, writer & speaker
Edith Franklin Wyatt
Chicago writer & social activist