Young Writers Society

Ani May Queen wrote:Jane Addams - social worker
Cindy Crawford - model
Richard J. Daley - mayor
Harrison Ford - actor
Ernest Hemingway - author
Carl Sandburg - poet
Ronald Reagan - U.S. president
Walt Disney - Title Please?

Have you figured out where I'm from yet? Here's some easier ones...

Abraham Lincoln - U.S. president
Al Capone - Gangstar/mobster

You beat me to it. Curse you!
Here's some more famous Illinoisans (while I'm native to this state, or hell, this country, I do call this state and its glorious city of broad shoulders home for now, so yeah, here we go)
Dan Rostenkowski
Jean Baptiste Point DuSable
Mike Ditka "DA COACH"
John Ashcroft
Wesley Clark
Harold Washington
Barack Obama
Dick Butkus
Dusty Baker
Harry Caray (If you were a hotdog, would you eat yourself?)
Coack K-If you follow Duke Basketball, you know who this man is.
Jim McMahon
Walter "Sweetness" Payton
Jimmy Chaimberlain (of the Smashing Pumpkins)
Miles Davis
Benny Goodman
Steve Goodman (the soul of chicago folk music and a freind of my fathers)
R Kelly
Kanye West
Jim and John Belushi
Michael Ian Black
Tom Bosley
John and Joan Cusak
Chris Farley
Tina Fey
Hugh Hefner
Bernie Mac
William H Macey
John Malkovich
Jenny McCarthy
Bill Murray
Bob Newhart
Pat Sajak
Robin Williams
Billy Zane
Saul Bellow
Ray Bradbury
Gwendolyn Brooks
Milton Freidman (prolly wont know who he is)
Enrico Fermi
Ernest Hemmingway
Ann Landers
Shel Silverstein
John Dillenger
Jack Ruby
Marshall Field


Whew! Thats a longer list than I originally anticipated! I tried to only include people that non-chicagoans would know, but I'm not sure. Heh. I also only included people from Chicago, because, let's face it: its the only part of the state that actually mattetrs.

He fell over himself all the time!! He holds the record for number of stumbles. Most of which are recorded on video tape, and played back with benny hill music. (Though, Garfield may have been the clumsiest- supposedly, he fell into a canal 14 times during its construction.)
Its OK though, we Omahites still have Malcom X to look up too.

Is it strange that the two largest political figures to come out of Omaha both had numerous assasionation attempts on them? Ford holds the record for most assasionation attempts, in fact. Malcom X was... well, Malcom X.