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Chicago Tribute Historical Markers

This series of roughly eighty markers, produced as a joint effort of the Chicago Tribune Foundation, the Chicago Cultural Center Foundation, and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, commemorates "notable Chicagoans by marking the places where they lived or worked". See ChicagoTribute.org for more information.
 
Stephen Douglas Marker image, Touch for more information
By Sean Flynn, October 28, 2023
Stephen Douglas Marker
1 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Bronzeville — Stephen Douglas — United States Senator (1813-1861) — Chicago Tribute —
2 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Ida B. Wells-Barnett — Chicago Tribute
3 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas (Bronzeville) — Richard Wright — Chicago Tribute
4 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, East Hyde Park — Harold Washington — Chicago Tribute —
5 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — Finley Peter Dunne — Chicago Tribute —
6 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Garfield Park — George Halas — Chicago Tribute —
7 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Bertha Honore Palmer and Potter Palmer
8 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Irna Phillips — Chicago Tribute —
9 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — John Wellborn Root — Chicago Tribute —
10 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Louise DeKoven Bowen — Chicago Tribute —
11 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Gold Coast — Robert McCormick — Chicago Tribute —
12 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard (Bronzeville) — Bessie Coleman — Chicago Tribute
13 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard (Bronzeville) — Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong — Chicago Tribute
14 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard (Bronzeville) — Nat "King" Cole — Chicago Tribute
15 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard (Bronzeville) — Oscar DePriest — Chicago Tribute
16 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard (Bronzeville) — Robert S. Abbott — Chicago Tribute
17 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard (Bronzeville) — The Marx Brothers — Chicago Tribute
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18 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Humboldt Park — Jens Jensen — Landscape architect (1860-1951) — Chicago Tribute —
19 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Humboldt Park — L. Frank Baum — Writer (1856-1919) — Chicago Tribute —
20 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Hyde Park — Enrico and Laura Fermi
21 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Kenwood — Julius Rosenwald — Chicago Tribute —
22 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Kenwood — Louis Henry Sullivan — Chicago Tribute —
23 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Kenwood — McKinley Morganfield "Muddy Waters" — Chicago Tribute —
24 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Lake View East — Pearl M. Hart — Chicago Tribute —
25 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Lakeview — Abe Saperstein — Basketball promoter (1902-1966) — Chicago Tribute — Reported unreadable
26 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Lincoln Park — Lαszlσ Moholy-Nagy — Chicago Tribute —
27 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Lincoln Park — Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini — Chicago Tribute —
28 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Little Village — Rudy Lozano — Community Activist (1951-1983) — Chicago Tribute —
29 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Near North Side — Cyrus Hall McCormick — Inventor and Businessman (1809-1884) — Chicago Tribute —
30 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Near North Side — Ellis Chesbrough — Chicago Tribute —
31 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Near North Side — William Butler Ogden — Businessman (1805-1877) — Chicago Tribute —
32 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Near South Side — George Pullman — Industrialist 1831-1897 — Chicago Tribute —
33 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, North Lawndale — Benny Goodman — Chicago Tribute —
34 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Oakland (Bronzeville) — Hannah Greenebaum Solomon — Chicago Tribute —
35 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Ravenswood — Carl Sandburg — Writer and Poet (1878-1967) — Chicago Tribute —
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36 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, River North — Ruth Page — Chicago Tribute
37 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Rogers Park — Burr Tillstrom — Puppeteer (1917-1985) — Chicago Tribute —
38 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, South Side — Andrew "Rube" Foster — Baseball player and owner (1879-1930) — Chicago Tribute —
39 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, South Side — Mahalia Jackson — Chicago Tribute —
40 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, South Side — Thomas A. Dorsey — Chicago Tribute —
41 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Streeterville — Catherine and Jean-Baptiste Point du Sable — Fur traders and farmers — Chicago Tribute —
42 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Streeterville — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe — Chicago Tribute
43 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, The Loop District — Aaron Montgomery Ward — Businessman, philanthropist, preservationist (1843-1913) — Chicago Tribute —
44 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Uptown — Margaret Anderson — Chicago Tribute —
45 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Wicker Park — Nelson Algren — Writer — 1909-1981 — Reported damaged
46 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Woodlawn — John Dewey — Chicago Tribute —
 
 
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