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

Jack Fuller

Chicago journalist & novelist

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