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  Chicago
  Chicago (ⁱ/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ or /ʃɪˈkɔːɡoʊ/) is the largest city in the US state of Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. The city has around 2.7 million residents. Its metropolitan area, sometimes called "Chicagoland", is the third largest in the United States, with an estimated 9.8 million people. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion also extends into DuPage County.
  Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. Today, Chicago is listed as an alpha+ global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranks seventh in the world on the 2012 Global Cities Index. The city retains its status as an international hub for finance, industry, telecommunications and infrastructure, with O'Hare International Airport being the second busiest airport in the world in terms of traffic movements. In 2008^[update], the city hosted 45.6 million domestic and overseas visitors. Among metropolitan areas, Chicago has the 4th largest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the world, ranking just behind Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles. Chicago is one of the most important Worldwide Centers of Commerce and trade.
  
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• Dan Kotowski
  Dan Kotowski is a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 33rd District since 2007.
  Before his election to the Illinois Senate Mr. Kotowski served as the Executive Director of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence from 1993 to 1999.
  Kotowski and his wife Anne live in Park Ridge with their two sons. He graduated from Loyola Academy, the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (English and Communications) and DePaul University (Master of Arts).
  
  
  
  
  
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  Illinois
  Illinois (ⁱ/ˌɪlɨˈnɔɪ/ IL-i-NOY) is the 25th most extensive and the 5th most populous of the 50 United States, and is often noted as a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal, timber, and petroleum in the south, Illinois has a broad economic base. Illinois is a major transportation hub. The Port of Chicago connects the state to other global ports from the Great Lakes, via the Saint Lawrence Seaway, to the Atlantic Ocean; as well as the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River, via the Illinois River. For decades, O'Hare International Airport has ranked as one of the world's busiest airports. Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics.
  Although the state's largest population centers today are in northern Illinois, originally the state's population grew from south to north, with settlers arriving from Kentucky in the 1810s. In 1818, Illinois achieved statehood. Chicago was founded in the 1830s on the banks of the Chicago River, one of the few natural harbors on southern Lake Michigan. Railroads and John Deere's invention of the self-scouring steel plow turned Illinois' rich prairie into some of the world's most productive and valuable farmlands, attracting immigrant farmers from Germany and Sweden. By 1900, the growth of industrial jobs in the northern cities and coal mining in the central and southern areas attracted immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe. Illinois was an important manufacturing center during both world wars. The Great Migration established a large community of African Americans in Chicago that created the city's famous jazz and blues cultures.
  
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  Texas
  Texas (ⁱ/ˈtɛksəs/) (Alibamu: Teksi ) is the second most populous and the second most extensive of the 50 United States, and the most extensive state of the 48 contiguous United States. The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in East Texas. Located in the South Central United States, Texas shares an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south, and borders the US states of New Mexico to the west, Oklahoma to the north, Arkansas to the northeast, and Louisiana to the east. Texas has an area of 268,820 square miles (696,200 km²), and a growing population of 25.7 million residents.
  During the Spanish colonial rule, the area was officially known as the Nuevo Reino de Filipinas: La Provincia de Texas. Antonio Margil de Jesús was known to be the first person to use the name in a letter to the Viceroy of Mexico in July 20, 1716. The name was not popularly used in daily speech but often appeared in legal documents until the end of the 1800s.
  
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  United States
  The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
  At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
  
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  Al Montoya
  Álvaro "Al" Montoya (born February 13, 1985) is an American professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the New York Rangers in the first round (6th overall) of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft after a three-year career with the University of Michigan. Montoya is the first Cuban American to play in the NHL.
  Montoya played youth hockey for the Chicago Young Americans and Loyola Academy and amateur hockey for the Texas Tornado of the North American Hockey League. He spent the 2000-01 season with the U.S. National Team Development Program. Montoya began attending the University of Michigan and playing for the Wolverines in 2002–03. He enjoyed success at Michigan, especially during his final season in 2004–05, where he posted a record of 30-7-3. Montoya twice represented the United States at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, backstopping the team to its first gold medal at the 2004 tournament in Finland; he was named to the tournament All-Star team. The 2005 tournament, hosted by the United States, was a disappointing one for Montoya and Team USA as they failed to medal, losing to the Czech Republic in the bronze medal game.
  
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• Bert Metzger
  Bert Metzger (1909 – March 7, 1986) was an American football player.
  A 5'9", 152 pound guard from Chicago, Metzger played at the University of Notre Dame and was nicknamed the "watch-charm guard" because of his relatively small size. Metzger played a key role on the Fighting Irish teams that won National Championships in 1929 and 1930, and he was named a consensus All American in 1930. Coach Knute Rockne said that Metzger was the best guard he had ever seen.
  After his football career had ended, Metzger worked as an executive at Bowman-Dean Foods. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1982.
  
  
  
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  Bill Murray
  William James "Bill" Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor, comedian and golfer. He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live in which he earned an Emmy Award and later went on to star in a number of critically and commercially successful comedic films, including Caddyshack (1980), Ghostbusters (1984), and Groundhog Day (1993). Murray gained additional critical acclaim later in his career, starring in Lost in Translation (2003), that earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination, and a series of films directed by Wes Anderson, including Rushmore (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and Moonrise Kingdom (2012).
  Murray was born and raised in Wilmette, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, the son of Lucille (née Collins), a mail room clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II, a lumber salesman. Murray's father died in 1967 from complications of diabetes when Bill was 17 years old. Murray, along with his eight siblings, was raised in an Irish American family. Three of his siblings are actors: John Murray, Joel Murray and Brian Doyle-Murray. A sister, Nancy, is an Adrian Dominican nun in Michigan, who has traveled the United States in a one-woman programme, portraying St. Catherine of Siena.
  
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• Bill Plante
  Bill Plante (born January 14, 1938) is a veteran journalist and correspondent for CBS News, having joined the network in 1964. He has been a White House correspondent for CBS and reports regularly on The Early Show and the CBS Evening News. He anchored CBS Sunday Night News from 1988 to 1995.
  
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• Bob Skoglund
  Robert W. "Bob" Skoglund (July 29, 1925 – January 1, 1949) was an professional American football defensive end in the National Football League.
  Skoglund was born in Chicago, Illinois. He starred at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois before attending the University of Notre Dame. A 6'1" end, he participated in the 1945 and 1946 East-West Shrine Games and earned three letters with the Fighting Irish. He later played with the Green Bay Packers during the 1947 NFL season.
  Skoglund died suddenly of a kidney infection in 1949.
  
  
  
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• Brendan Leonard
  Brendan Patrick Leonard (born February 6, 1984) is a filmmaker best known for his hit series on ABC Family, The Brendan Leonard Show.
  Brendan Patrick Leonard was born on February 6th, 1984, in Winnetka, Illinois, to Mike Leonard and Cathy Leonard. He has three older siblings named Matt, Megan, and Kerry. Brendan graduated from Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, after transferring from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. He has an avid interest in indie music, hockey, and video editing.
  Around the age of fifteen, Brendan picked up an interest in video editing, most likely sparked by his father, an NBC Today correspondent and producer. Before long, Brendan took his creativity and editing skills to a whole new level and put together a local Public-access television cable TV show, "The Brendan Leonard Show," starring himself and his high school friends. Four years later, his long-running local production was to be picked up on national television.
  On Brendan's 19th birthday, he received a telephone call from an ABC Family spokesperson and learned that his show was going to be hosted and aired on ABC Family. On May 26, 2003, The Brendan Leonard Show made its national debut.
  
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• Charlie Leibrandt
  Charles Louis "Charlie" Leibrandt, Jr. ( /ˈliːbrænt/; born October 4, 1956) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1979 to 1993 for the Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals, Atlanta Braves and Texas Rangers. Leibrandt was a productive pitcher throughout his 14 year career, and a member of the 1985 World Series champion Royals team.
  Leibrandt was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio from 1975–1978, where he earned four letters as a pitcher on the baseball team. During his senior year, Leibrandt was selected first-team All-MAC; he compiled a record of 7-2 with an ERA of 1.65.
  Leibrandt was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the ninth round of the 1978 free agent draft. He made his debut in Major League Baseball on September 17, 1979 in a Cincinnati Reds uniform. A few weeks later, he made his first post-season appearance in the 1979 National League Championship Series, recording an out of the only batter he faced, John Milner.
  In 1980, Leibrandt was the Opening Day pitcher as the Reds beat the Atlanta Braves, 5-0, and Leibrandt threw a five-hit shutout for his first career win. But Leibrandt, while 10-9 in 1980, showed little promise in Cincinnati and was traded to the Kansas City Royals for Bob Tufts on June 7, 1983. The following year, Leibrandt went 11-7 with a 3.63 ERA as the Royals won the Western Division championship.
  
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• Colin Falls
  Colin Falls (born June 9, 1985 in Park Ridge, Illinois) is an American basketball player who spent the 2007–08 season with Orlandina Basket of Italy. A 6'5" (196 cm) shooting guard, Falls starred at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois and played four seasons for the University of Notre Dame, where he became the first player in school history to make more than 100 three-point field goals in a single season.
  
  
  
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• Dan Kotowski
  Dan Kotowski is a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 33rd District since 2007.
  Before his election to the Illinois Senate Mr. Kotowski served as the Executive Director of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence from 1993 to 1999.
  Kotowski and his wife Anne live in Park Ridge with their two sons. He graduated from Loyola Academy, the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (English and Communications) and DePaul University (Master of Arts).
  
  
  
  
  
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• Dave Finzer
  Dave Finzer is a former professional American football player who played punter for two seasons for the Chicago Bears and Seattle Seahawks. He led the NFL in punts inside the 20-yard line with 26 in 1984. A 1978 graduate of Loyola Academy. After kicking for the University of Illinois, Finzer took his talents to Division III DePauw University in Indiana, where he punted and kicked a 52-yard field goal.
  
  
  
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• David Marconi
  David Marconi is an American screenwriter and film director. His writing credits include the screenplays for Enemy of the State and Live Free or Die Hard.
  
  
  
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• Eckhard Gerdes
  Eckhard Gerdes (born 1959) is an American novelist and editor. He earned his MFA in creative writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
  He is the author of twelve novels:
  His work reflects experimental technique, sometimes ignoring time, space, or cause-and-effect, in the service of stories of individuals struggling to transcend fear and limitation. His recent work has been associated with the Bizarro Fiction movement, of which he is one of the leading proponents.
  Essays on his work, and reviews of individual publications, have appeared in Rain Taxi, Notre Dame Review,Review of Contemporary Fiction and elsewhere.
  Gerdes is the editor of The Journal of Experimental Fiction, issues of which are usually Festschrifts on a single writer (e.g. John Barth, Raymond Federman, Harold Jaffe). He has also written on modern and post-modern literature for Review of Contemporary Fiction, Hyde Park Review of Books, and other magazines.
  Gerdes has won several literary awards, including twice recipient of the Richard Pike Bissell Creative Writing Award. My Landlady the Lobotomist is currently a nominee for the Wonderland Book Award for Best Novel of the Year. The Million-Year Centipede was selected as one of the top ten mainstream novels of 2007 in the Preditors and Editors Readers Poll. He lives in Chicago; he has three children.
  
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• Ed Boon
  Edward J. Boon (born March 30, 1964) is an American video game programmer who had been employed for over 15 years at Midway. He works for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in its subsidiary company called NetherRealm Studios which was renamed from Midway Games after Warners Bros purchased it, where he is the executive producer of the Mortal Kombat series.
  Boon, along with John Tobias is a co-creator of the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. He continues to work on the ongoing series of games, movies and TV shows. Boon is generally credited as the lead programmer while Tobias is lead designer. He has also provided voice acting and motion capture for the games, most notably providing the voice of Scorpion in all of the games as well as both feature films.
  Boon graduated high school from Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois. He graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and computer science. He was ranked #100 in IGN's "Top 100 Game Creators" especially noting his involvement in the Mortal Kombat series.
  
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• Eddie Shin
  Eddie Shin (born July 17, 1976 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Korean-American actor.
  He was born and raised in Chicago, in the neighborhood of Rogers Park.
  From a young age, Shin was heavily involved in academics and extracurriculars, and would go on to become student body president at both his grade school, Saint Jerome, and his high school, Loyola Academy. He was also involved in his Church youth club, where he would also become president in his junior and senior years of high school. After graduating from high school, he attended Williams College and seriously considered a career in medicine. Instead, he discovered and became passionate about acting after getting involved with a student run theatre project in his first year. Before his second year of college, he transferred to the University of Chicago, where he would become a mainstay of the University Theatre.
  During his undergraduate years, he interned at the famed Steppenwolf Theatre under the mentorship of Curt Columbus, where he would eventually help lead various workshops and have his professional debut in the world premier of Chuck Mee's "The Berlin Circle", directed by Tina Landau. Shin has performed throughout Chicago at theatres such as the Goodman, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Court Theatre, and Appletree Theatre.
  
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  Freddie Lindstrom
  Frederick Charles Lindstrom (November 21, 1905 – October 4, 1981) was a National League Baseball player with the New York Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs and Brooklyn Dodgers from 1924 until 1936. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976.
  At the age of 23, Lindstrom hit .358 for the Giants and was named The Sporting News Major League All Star team’s third baseman ahead of Pittsburgh’s Harold “Pie” Traynor. Two years later, he repeated the honor while scoring 127 runs and batting .379, second only to Rogers Hornsby among right-handed batters in National League history.
  
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• George Bon Salle
  George H. Bon Salle (born July 1, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former professional basketball player. A 6'8" forward, he starred at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, before playing at the University of Illinois. As a senior in 1957, Bon Salle was awarded All-American honors, and he was selected by the NBA's Syracuse Nationals in that year's professional draft. However, Bon Salle never played for the Nationals, spending most of his professional career with the National Industrial Basketball League's Denver Truckers. A gold-medalist at the 1959 Pan-American Games, Bon Salle also played briefly for the NBA's Chicago Packers (now the Washington Wizards) during the 1961-1962 season.
  
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  Ignatius of Loyola
  Ignatius of Loyola (Basque: Iñigo Loiolakoa, Spanish: Ignacio de Loyola) (1491 – July 31, 1556) was a Spanish knight from a Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and was its first Superior General. Ignatius emerged as a religious leader during the Counter-Reformation. Loyola's devotion to the Catholic Church was characterized by unquestioning obedience to the Catholic Church's authority and hierarchy.
  After being seriously wounded at the Battle of Pamplona in 1521, he underwent a spiritual conversion while in recovery. De Vita Christi by Ludolph of Saxony inspired Loyola to abandon his previous military life and devote himself to labour for God, following the example of spiritual leaders such as Francis of Assisi. He experienced a vision of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus while at the shrine of Our Lady of Montserrat in March 1522. Thereafter he went to Manresa, where he began praying for seven hours a day, often in a nearby cave, while formulating the fundamentals of the Spiritual Exercises. In September 1523, Loyola reached the Holy Land to settle there, but was sent back to Europe by the Franciscans.
  
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• JAQ
  Jeffery Allen Qaiyum redirects here. For the name Jeffery Allen Qaiyum see Jacques.
  Jeffery Allen Qaiyum' (Born 1974)is an American professional b-boy, writer and MC. He has a brother, GQ, who is also a B-Boy professional.
  Jeffery Allen Qaiyum was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. JAQ is of mixed ethnic background having a Pakistani father and a European American mother of German and English descent. The DJ, emcee, beatmaker, producer, beatboxer then moved to NYC where he learned how to make beats and carefully craft rhymes. J was the composer and DJ for the off-broadway smash hit musical comedy, The Bomb-itty of Errors.
  He was also composer and co-star of MTV's Scratch and Burn, which he created along with his brother GQ and two of the other bomb-itty guys, Dragon and Jordan. He scored New York indie film "Just Another Story", which aired on Showtime. His brother GQ wrote, directed and starred in the movie. The Q brothers were associate producers. J was the music video co-director and has a small cameo.
  
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  Jeffrey Jordan
  Jeffrey Michael Jordan (born November 18, 1988) is an American former basketball player who played for the University of Central Florida Knights and the University of Illinois Fighting Illini. He played high school basketball for Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois. Jordan is the elder son of retired NBA MVP Michael Jordan, who played for the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards, and the older brother of Marcus Jordan.
  Jeffrey Jordan has been the subject of local and national media attention, and had three of his high school games broadcast nationally on ESPN in 2007. Jordan also played football in his sophomore year at Loyola Academy.
  Jordan graduated from Loyola Academy on May 26, 2007. He received scholarship offers from Valparaiso and Loyola University Chicago, and was actively recruited as a preferred walk-on by Davidson, Penn State, Northwestern, and University of Illinois. Jordan decided to play as a preferred walk-on at the University of Illinois. Jeff Jordan enrolled at the university in 2007 as a psychology major with an academic scholarship. On January 22, 2009, it was announced by the university that Jordan would receive a full scholarship.
  
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  Jim Irsay
  James "Jim" Irsay (born June 13, 1959) is the owner and CEO of the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League.
  Irsay was born in Lincolnwood, Illinois, the son of Harriet (née Pogorzelski) and Chicago businessman Robert Irsay. His father was from a Jewish Hungarian family and his mother was the daughter of Polish Catholic immigrants. Irsay was raised Catholic, and did not know about his father's Jewish heritage until he was fourteen. Jim's brother, Robert, was born with a mental disability and died in 1999, and his sister, Roberta, died in a car accident in 1971. Irsay attended high school at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb just north of Chicago, Illinois. After high school he attended, and graduated from, Southern Methodist University in 1982 with a degree in broadcast journalism. Irsay played linebacker for the SMU Mustangs football team as a walk-on, but an ankle injury ended his playing career.
  Irsay was 12 years old when his father, Robert Irsay, purchased the Baltimore Colts. After graduating from SMU in 1982 he joined the Colts' professional staff. He was named Vice President and General Manager in 1984, one month after the Colts made their controversial move to Indianapolis. After his father suffered a stroke in 1995 Jim assumed day-to-day management with the role of Senior Executive Vice President, General Manager and Chief Operating Officer in April 1996. When his father died in 1997 Jim engaged in a legal battle with his stepmother over ownership of the team, but later became the youngest NFL team owner at that time at 37. He controls 100% of the franchise.
  
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• John Holecek
  John Francis Holecek (born May 7, 1972 in Steger, Illinois) is a former professional American football player who played linebacker for eight seasons for the Buffalo Bills, the San Diego Chargers, and the Atlanta Falcons. He went to college at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was then drafted by the Buffalo Bills in 1995, went to the San Diego Chargers in 2001, and last to the Atlanta Falcons in 2002. Holecek played in the NFL for 8 seasons, and then he went back to his home town and coaches at Loyola Academy.
  After retiring from the NFL, he returned to Illinois to coach high school football at Loyola Academy, a private college preparatory in Wilmette, Illinois. John Holecek is still currently the Head Coach for Loyola Academy, and he is also the Assistant Athletic Director. In 2008, he coached Loyola to a Prep Bowl Championship at Soldier Field; there the Ramblers defeated Lane Tech 17-0.
  John spent his years in college at Illinois Fighting Illini football from 1991-1994. Holecek made the All-Big Ten First Team in 1993, All-Big Ten Second Team in 1994, and got part of foursome that gave Illinois the nickname "Linebacker U" in the mid '90s.
  
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• John Musker
  John Musker (born November 8, 1953) is an American animation director. Along with Ron Clements, he makes up the duo of one of the Disney animation studio's leading director teams.
  Musker was born in Chicago, Illinois, the oldest of eight children in an Irish Catholic family. He first met Ron Clements during the production of The Fox and the Hound (1981), where he worked as a character animator under Clements and Cliff Nordberg. Musker later worked with Clements again on the ambitious animated flop The Black Cauldron (1985). In 1986 he made his directorial debut with Clements and two other collaborators on the feature The Great Mouse Detective.
  Together, Musker and Clements wrote and directed The Little Mermaid (1989), a touching retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen tale. With Oscar-winning songs by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, the film was a huge success, bringing back critical and commercial clout for feature animation. Later on, the two wrote, directed, and produced Aladdin (1992), which was an even larger success. They also directed Hercules (1997), which was not as successful as the previous two films but was still profitable.
  
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  Jonathan Nolan
  Jonathan Nolan (born June 6, 1976) is a British-American author and screenwriter. His short story "Memento Mori" was used by his brother, director Christopher Nolan, as the basis for the screenplay for the critically acclaimed film Memento. He has also co-written the screenplays for The Prestige and The Dark Knight, with his brother. He recently created the CBS drama Person of Interest. He has also been credited under his nickname of Jonah.
  He was born in London, England, to an English father and American mother. He was raised in the Chicago area. Nolan attended Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, graduating in 1994, and then graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., in 1999, where he majored in English and was a staff writer for The Hoya.
  While his brother, Christopher, speaks with a British accent, Jonathan speaks with an American accent.
  Nolan describes his successful working relationship with his brother in the production notes of The Prestige: "I’ve always suspected that it has something to do with the fact that he’s left-handed and I’m right-handed, because he’s somehow able to look at my ideas and flip them around in a way that’s just a little bit more twisted and interesting. It’s great to be able to work with him like that." In addition, they also contrast in the way they speak; both brothers have mixed American and British accents, Jonathan has a more American accent while Christopher has a more British accent.
  
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• Lucas McGee
  Lucas Whitney McGee is a former US Rowing national team member, former Oxford Blue Boat member, and current freshman coach of rowing at University of Washington. Luke began his rowing career at 15 years old while attending Loyola Academy after his father Ray and brother Josh encouraged him to try out for the team. After high school, he attended Yale University for a year, but then transferred to Brown University where he rowed competitively and was captain of his crew. Luke returned to Brown in the fall of 2004 and coached the Freshmen from 2004-2007. Since 2004, McGee's first freshmen crews have captured three Eastern Sprints Championships, two Pac-10 Championships and a gold medal the IRA National Championship.
  
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• Mark Curran
  Mark C. Curran is the current Sheriff of Lake County, Illinois.
  Curran began his career a state prosecutor in Lake County in 1990, rising to Senior Felony Prosecutor. He then served as a prosecutor with the Illinois Attorney General from 1999 to 2002. In 2002, Curran went into private practice, concentrating in civil and criminal litigation.
  In 2006, Curran won the Democratic Party primary election on March 21, 2006, and won the general election in November 2006, defeating incumbent Gary Del Re. Curran has been outspoken in his call for prison reform for Illinois, including faith based programming in prisons.
  In August 2008, Curran made national news when he voluntarily spent a week in the Lake County Jail.
  On December 15, 2008 Curran announced that he was switching from the Democratic to Republican Party, calling his decision a "matter of conscience." Curran stated that the scandals of Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich played a role in his decision to switch parties
  Curran holds a J.D. Chicago-Kent College of Law and a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from Spring Hill College. He graduated from Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois. He and his wife Irene have three children.
  
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  Michael Jordan
  Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player, active entrepreneur, and majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was considered instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.
  After a three-season career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the Tar Heels' national championship team in 1982, Jordan joined the NBA's Chicago Bulls in 1984. He quickly emerged as a league star, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring. His leaping ability, illustrated by performing slam dunks from the free throw line in slam dunk contests, earned him the nicknames "Air Jordan" and "His Airness". He also gained a reputation for being one of the best defensive players in basketball. In 1991, he won his first NBA championship with the Bulls, and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a "three-peat". Although Jordan abruptly retired from basketball at the beginning of the 1993–94 NBA season to pursue a career in baseball, he rejoined the Bulls in 1995 and led them to three additional championships (1996, 1997, and 1998) as well as an NBA-record 72 regular-season wins in the 1995–96 NBA season. Jordan retired for a second time in 1999, but returned for two more NBA seasons from 2001 to 2003 as a member of the Washington Wizards.
  
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  Neal Katyal
  Neal Kumar Katyal (born March 12, 1970) is an American lawyer and chaired professor of law. He served as Acting Solicitor General of the United States from May 2010 until June 2011. As Acting Solicitor General, Katyal succeeded Elena Kagan, who was President Barack Obama's choice to replace the retiring Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Katyal was the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University Law Center and the lead counsel for the Guantanamo Bay detainees in the Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which held that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay "violate both the UCMJ and the four Geneva Conventions."
  While serving at the Justice Department, he has argued numerous Supreme Court cases, including his successful defense (by an 8-1 decision) of the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the landmark case, Northwest Austin v. Holder. He also successfully argued in favor of the constitutionality of President Obama's health care bill and unanimously won a Supreme Court case defending former Attorney General John Ashcroft against alleged abuses of civil liberties in the war on terror. Katyal was also the only head of the Solicitor General's office to argue in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
  
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  Neil Hartigan
  Neil F. Hartigan (born May 4, 1938) is an Illinois Democrat who has served as Illinois Attorney General, the 40th Lieutenant Governor, and a judge of the Illinois Appellate Court. Hartigan also was the Democratic nominee for governor in 1990 but lost the race to Republican Jim Edgar.
  Hartigan grew up in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood and graduated from Loyola Academy. He graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. with a bachelor's degree in 1959. He received a juris doctor degree from Loyola University College of Law in 1962.
  Upon completion of law school Hartigan worked for 10 years for the city of Chicago. He served in various roles: as the city's legislative counsel in Springfield, as attorney for the Chicago Board of Health and as general counsel for the Chicago Park District.
  In 1972, Hartigan was selected as the running mate to the party's endorsed candidate, then-lieutenant governor Paul Simon. Simon lost the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to Daniel Walker, while Hartigan beat Walker's hand-picked running mate. Walker and Hartigan won the general election, making Hartigan, at age 34, the youngest lieutenant governor in the nation. Following his election Time magazine named him as one of 200 future leaders of the country.
  
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• Nick Rassas
  Nicholas Charles Rassas (born January 13, 1944 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a former professional American football player who played safety for three seasons for the Atlanta Falcons.
  
  
  
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• Pat Foley
  Pat Foley (born 1954) is the television play-by-play announcer for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League.
  A native of Glenview, Illinois, Foley graduated from Loyola Academy and received a degree in telecommunications from Michigan State University. He joined the Blackhawks' broadcasting crew at the age of 26 after calling games for the now-defunct Grand Rapids Owls of the International Hockey League, and he quickly became recognized as the "Voice of the Blackhawks." In 1991, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Live Sports Program, and in 2001, he was inducted into the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame, joining such local legends as Jack Brickhouse and Harry Caray. From 1995 to 1998, he called NHL games on Fox-TV.
  In May 2006, the Blackhawks organization made the controversial decision to withdraw their contract offer to the popular Foley, citing unspecified "personal" reasons. The team also ended their simulcasts, replacing Foley on radio with former New York Islanders broadcaster John Wiedeman and on television with former Columbus Blue Jackets voice, Dan Kelly, Jr..
  
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• Paul Florence
  Paul Robert Florence (April 22, 1900 – May 28, 1986), was a professional baseball player who played catcher in the Major Leagues in 1926 for the New York Giants. He graduated from Georgetown University, where he was a Hall of Fame selection in football, basketball and baseball. Florence was also a catcher inductee for football and baseball in the Loyola Academy Hall of Fame. He was the catcher on the all-time Rochester team, which was considered one of the best in the International League. For seven years, Florence was the general manager of the Birmingham team in the Southern Association. He was the assistant general manager of the Cincinnati Reds and one of the main organizers of the first Houston Astros team. He remained with the Astros as their chief scout until he retired in 1983 at the age of 83.
  He also played for one year for the Chicago Cardinals.
  He was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in Gainesville, Florida.
  
  
  
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• Peter Steinfels
  Peter F. Steinfels (born 1941) is an American journalist and educator best known for his writings on religious topics.
  A native of Chicago, Illinois, and a lifelong Roman Catholic, Steinfels earned his Ph.D from Columbia University and joined the staff of the journal Commonweal in 1964. He served as a visiting professor at Notre Dame in 1994-95 and then as visiting professor at Georgetown University from 1997 to 2001. From 1990 to 2010, he wrote a column called "Beliefs" for the religion section of the New York Times.
  He is a professor at Fordham University and co-director of the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture. Steinfels has also written several books, including The Neoconservatives: The Men Who Are Changing America's Politics (ISBN 0-671-41384-8) and A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America (ISBN 0-684-83663-7).
  He has argued in favor of the ordination of women as priests and deacons, and has suggested that this could eventually lead to the creation of female cardinals.
  
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• Rob Feaster
  Robert M. "Rob" Feaster (born May 15, 1973) is an American former professional basketball player. Feaster graduated from The College of the Holy Cross in 1995 but went undrafted in the 1995 NBA Draft. His professional career took him to Germany, Australia and France. He is a 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m), 220 pound (100 kg) small forward.
  A native of Chicago, Illinois, Feaster played high school basketball at Loyola Academy in Wilmette and had aspirations to be a big-time player at a nationally prominent basketball school. He ultimately ended up at playing for the Crusaders of Holy Cross, a mid-major program in Worcester, Massachusetts. Even though Holy Cross did not have the allure to draw top level talent from across the country, Feaster did manage to excel at the NCAA Division I school and graduated as one of the most decorated players in Patriot League history.
  Feaster's college career began in 1991–92. In 29 games played he averaged 8.0 points and 3.2 rebounds per game and was named the 1992 Patriot League Rookie of the Year. He followed that campaign with a sophomore season in which the Crusaders placed second in the conference regular season, won the Patriot League Tournament, and earned a berth in the 1993 NCAA Tournament. Feaster led the team in scoring at 17.7 points per game for the season and was also named the conference tournament's most valuable player. It was Holy Cross' first NCAA Tournament appearance since the 1979–80 season, and with a 24–7 record, just their third 20-win season since then as well.
  
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  Robert Ryan
  Robert Bushnell Ryan (November 11, 1909 – July 11, 1973) was an American actor who often played hardened cops and ruthless villains.
  Ryan was born in Chicago, Illinois, the first child of Timothy Ryan and his wife Mabel Bushnell Ryan. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1932, having held the school's heavyweight boxing title all four years of his attendance. After graduation, the 6′ 4" Ryan found employment as a stoker on a ship, a WPA worker, and a ranch hand in Montana.
  Ryan attempted to make a career in show business as a playwright, but had to turn to acting to support himself. He studied acting in Hollywood and appeared on stage and in small film parts during the early 1940s.
  In January 1944, after securing a contract guarantee from RKO Radio Pictures, Ryan enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served as a drill instructor at Camp Pendleton, in San Diego, California. At Camp Pendleton, he befriended writer and future director Richard Brooks, whose novel, The Brick Foxhole, he greatly admired. He also took up painting.
  
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• Steve Quinn
  Stephen Timothy "Steve" Quinn (born February 11, 1946 in Pittsburg, Kansas, U.S.) is a former American football center who played one season for the American Football League's Houston Oilers.
  
  
  
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• Tim Foley
  Thomas David "Tim" Foley (born January 22, 1948 in Evanston, Illinois) is a retired American football player.
  Foley starred at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois before moving on to Purdue University, where he received All-American honors as a defensive back in 1969. He then played 11 seasons (1970–1980), primarily with the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was named to the Pro Bowl in 1979.
  
  
  
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  Westbrook Pegler
  Francis James Westbrook Pegler (August 2, 1894 – June 24, 1969) was an American journalist and writer. He was a popular columnist in the 1930s and 1940s famed for his opposition to the New Deal and labor unions. Pegler criticized every president from Herbert Hoover to FDR ("moosejaw") to Harry Truman ("a thin-lipped hater") to John F. Kennedy. He also criticized the Supreme Court, the tax system, and labor unions. In 1962, he lost his contract with King Features Syndicate, owned by the Hearst Corporation, after he started criticizing Hearst executives. His late writing appeared sporadically in publications that included the John Birch Society's American Opinion.
  Pegler was born August 2, 1894, in Minneapolis, Minnesota where his father, Arthur James Pegler, was a newspaper editor.
  The Roman Catholic Pegler married Julia Harpman, a onetime New York Daily News crime reporter from a Jewish family in Tennessee. Later he married his secretary Maude Wettje.
  Westbrook was the youngest American war correspondent during World War I, working for United Press. He became a sports columnist after the war but soon wrote general interest articles. He moved in 1925 to the Chicago Tribune and in 1933 to the Scripps Howard syndicate, where he worked closely with his friend Roy Howard. He built up a large readership for his column 'Mister Pegler' and elicited this observation by Time magazine in its October 10, 1938 issue:
  
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