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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.
By Sean Flynn, October 28, 2023
Andrew "Rube" Foster Marker
1 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Bridgeport — Andrew "Rube" Foster Baseball player and owner (1879-1930) Chicago Tribute —  |
| 2 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Chicago Tribute — |
| 3 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — 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 — Bessie Coleman Chicago Tribute — |
| 13 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard — Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong Chicago Tribute — |
| 14 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard — Nat "King" Cole Chicago Tribute — |
| 15 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard — Oscar DePriest Chicago Tribute — |
| 16 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard — Robert S. Abbott Chicago Tribute — |
| 17 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Grand Boulevard — The Marx Brothers Chicago Tribute — |
| 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 — Hannah Greenebaum Solomon Chicago Tribute — |
| 35 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Oakland — Stephen Douglas United States Senator (1813-1861) Chicago Tribute — |
| 36 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Old Town — Albert and Lucy Parsons Labor activists Chicago Tribute — |
| 37 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Ravenswood — Carl Sandburg Writer and Poet (1878-1967) Chicago Tribute — |
| 38 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, River North — Ruth Page Chicago Tribute — |
| 39 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Rogers Park — Burr Tillstrom Puppeteer (1917-1985) Chicago Tribute — |
| 40 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, South Side — Mahalia Jackson Chicago Tribute — |
| 41 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, South Side — Thomas A. Dorsey Chicago Tribute — |
| 42 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Streeterville — Catherine and Jean-Baptiste Point du Sable Fur traders and farmers Chicago Tribute — |
| 43 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Streeterville — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Chicago Tribute — |
| 44 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, The Loop District — Aaron Montgomery Ward Businessman, philanthropist, preservationist (1843-1913) Chicago Tribute — |
| 45 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Uptown — Margaret Anderson Chicago Tribute — |
| 46 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Wicker Park — Nelson Algren Writer 1909-1981 Reported damaged |
| 47 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Woodlawn — John Dewey Chicago Tribute — |