Encyclopedia of Chicago

Cabrini, Frances Xavier	b July 15, 1850, Saint Angelo Lodigiano, Italy; d Dec. 22, 1917, Chicago.	Educator; social worker; founded schools and orphanages; canonized in 1946.
Cadwell, Jacob	b 1770 or 1771, Addison County, VT; d July 27, 1848.	First Euro-American settler in Deerfield in 1835.
Cady, Ezekiel	b Apr. 29, 1791, Oneida, NY? d Oct. 1, 1873, buried Cady Cemetery.	Landowner in Deer Grove in 1850s.
Caldwell, Alfred	b May 26, 1903, St. Louis, MO; d July 3, 1998, Bristol, WI.	Landscape architect; engineer; educator; designed Lily Pond in Lincoln Park.
Caldwell, Billy [Sauganash]	b Mar. 17, 1780, Niagara Frontier (NY); d Sept. 27, 1841, Council Bluffs, IA.	Fur trader; justice of the peace; Potawatomi chief; officer in British Indian Dept.; business chief of the Prairie Bands.
Calhoun, John	b Apr. 14, 1808, Watertown, NY; d Feb. 20, 1859, Chicago.	Editor; founded Chicago Weekly Democrat.
Callahan, Harry	b Oct. 22, 1912, Detroit, MI; d Mar. 15, 1999, Atlanta, GA.	Photographer; taught at the Institute of Design.
Cameron, Daniel R.	b Aug. 16, 1836, Summerstown, Ontario, Canada; d June 26, 1918, Altadena, CA.	Stationery manufacturer; printer; president of Chicago Board of Education.
Campanini, Cleofante	b Sept. 1, 1860, Parma, Italy; d Dec. 19, 1919, Chicago.	Opera director for Chicago-Philadelphia Grand Opera.
Campbell, James B.	active 1830s.	I&M Canal commissioner; laid out village of Joliet in 1834.
Campbell, Lucie E. [Lucie Campbell Williams]	b Apr. 30, 1885, Duck Hill, MS; d Jan. 3, 1963, Nashville, TN.	Gospel composer; teacher; pioneer in twentieth-century gospel music.
Campbell, Robert C.	active 1850s.	Railroad engineer; worked for Fond du Lac railroad.
Campbell, Robert W.	b July 30, 1874, Frankfort, IN; d Feb. 16, 1947.	Lawyer; first president of National Council for Industrial Safety (1913); chief attorney for Illinois Steel.
Campbell, Thomas A. E.	b July 1810, Montgomery County, NY; d May 14, 1878? Valparaiso, IN.	Early postmaster of Valparaiso Township.
Camras, Marvin	b Jan. 1, 1916, Chicago; d June 23, 1995, Evanston, IL.	Educator; inventor; pioneered magnetic tape recording.
Camryn, Walter [Walter Cameron]	b July 31, 1903, Helena, MT; d Feb. 29, 1984, Chicago.	Choreographer; principal dancer Chicago Opera Ballet; established Stone-Camryn School of Dance.
Canfield, Florence C.	b ca. 1847, NY; d Nov. 5, 1926? Bremen Township, IL.	Farm owner; sold land in 1900 to Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railway.
Cantwell, Daniel M.	b June 29, 1914, Chicago; d Jan. 2, 1996, Chicago.	Roman Catholic priest; founder and chaplain of Catholic Interracial Council; pastor of St. Clotilde parish.
Capone, Alphonse	b Jan. 17, 1899, Brooklyn, NY; d Jan. 25, 1947, Miami, FL.	Chicago gangster, bootlegger, and racketeer.
Capone, Ralph	b Jan. 12, 1894, Naples, Italy; d Nov. 20, 1974, Hurley, WI.	Prohibition-era gangster (brother of Al Capone).
Capone, Theresa Angelina	b ca. 1867, Italy; d Nov. 29, 1952, Chicago.	Mother of Al Capone.
Caray, Harry [Harry Christopher Carabina]	b Mar. 1, 1914, St. Louis, MO; d Feb. 18, 1998, Rancho Mirage, CA.	Baseball broadcaster for White Sox and Cubs.
Carbutt, John	b Dec. 2, 1832, Sheffield, England; d July 26, 1905, Philadelphia, PA.	Photographer; chemist; invented new photographic methods.
Carey, Archibald James (Sr.)	b Aug. 1867 or 1868, Atlanta, GA; d Mar. 23, 1931, Chicago.	African Methodist Episcopal minister; political activist.
Carey, Thomas	b 1860, West Brookfield, MA; d Sept. 1, 1925, Los Angeles, CA.	Alderman; owned Hawthorne Race Track.
Carkeek, Jack	b Jan. 22, 1861, Rockland, MI; d Mar. 12, 1924, Havana, Cuba.	Wrestler; competitor in first professional heavyweight championship in Chicago.
Carnevali, Emanuel	b Dec. 4, 1897, Firenze (Toscana), Italy; d Nov. 1, 1942, Bologna, Italy.	Poet; associate editor of Poetry magazine; author, A Hurried Man (1925).
Carpenter, Angelo	b Aug. 19, 1827, Uxbridge, MA; d Mar. 30, 1880, Dundee, IL.	Platted Carpentersville in 1851; state legislator.
Carpenter, Charles V.	b Oct. 31, 1806, Uxbridge, MA; d Feb. 10, 1878, Dundee, IL.	Farmer; arrived with his brother in 1837 in Carpentersville.
Carpenter, Daniel	b Apr. 27, 1801, Uxbridge, MA; d Jan. 6, 1874, Dundee, IL.	Farmer; arrived with his brother in 1837 in Carpentersville.
Carpenter, Henry	b Feb. 22, 1810, Washington County, NY; d June 7, 1891, Downers Grove, IL.	First store owner in Downers Grove; postmaster; justice of the peace.
Carpenter, Jacob	b Dec. 17, 1811, OH; d Sept. 20, 1836, Aurora, IL.	Staked out a land claim in what is now Montgomery, ca. 1834.
Carpenter, John Alden	b Feb. 28, 1876, Park Ridge, IL; d Apr. 26, 1951, Chicago.	Composer (The Birthday of the Infanta); early works premiered in Chicago.
Carpenter, Philo	b Feb. 27, 1805, Savoy, MA; d Aug. 7, 1886, Chicago.	Pharmacist; cofounded First Presbyterian Church; temperance advocate; participant in Underground Railroad.
Carroll, Cora	b Aug. 16, 1924, Indianola, MS; d July 2000, Chicago.	Winner of Chicago Defender’s “Mayor of Bronzeville” contests (1958–1962).
Carroll, Paul D.	b July 15, 1927, Chicago; d Aug. 31, 1996, Vilas, NC.	Educator; Beat-generation editor; poet; Univ. of Illinois at Chicago faculty member.
Carse, Matilda	b Nov. 19, 1835, Belfast, Ireland; d June 3, 1917, Park Hill-on-Hudson, NY.	Temperance activist; suffragist; editor; entrepreneur; president Chicago Central Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Cary, William D.	b Sept. 7, 1807, Sandy Creek Onondaga, NY; d Feb. 3, 1861, buried in Cary Cemetery, Cary, IL.	Farmer; platted Cary in 1856.
Cassidy, Claudia	b Nov. 18, 1899, Shawneetown, IL; d July 21, 1996, Chicago.	Theatre, dance, and music critic for Chicago newspapers.
Castle, George	b ca. 1850, Syracuse, NY; d Dec. 29, 1917, Miami, FL.	Owner of Majestic and Olympic Theatres; vaudeville manager.
Cather, Willa	b Dec. 7, 1873, Back Creek Valley (now Gore), VA; d Apr. 24, 1947, New York, NY.	Novelist (The Song of the Lark); short story writer.
Caton, Edward	b Apr. 3, 1900, St. Petersburg, Russia; d Oct. 22, 1981, New York, NY.	Dancer; teacher; choreographer; danced with Chicago Opera Ballet.
Caverly, John R.	b Dec. 6, 1861, London, England; d Aug. 4, 1939, at sea en route to Bermuda.	Lawyer; chief justice of Criminal Court; sentenced Leopold and Loeb.
Cayton, Horace Roscoe	b Apr. 12, 1903, Seattle, WA; d Jan. 22, 1970, Paris, France.	Sociologist; social reformer; coauthor Black Metropolis (1945).
Cermak, Anton	b May 9, 1873, Kladno, Czechoslovakia; d Mar. 6, 1933, Miami, FL.	Mayor of Chicago (1931–1933).
Cernocky, Louis, Jr.	b Nov. 1, 1909, Chicago; d June 27, 1991, Fox River Grove, IL.	Purchased Fox River Picnic Grove in 1942 (with wife Clara Opatrny).
Cernocky, Louis, Sr.	b June 11, 1885, Austria; d Sept. 20, 1934, Fox River Grove, IL.	Harness maker.
Chaddick, Harry F.	b Aug. 27, 1901, Chicago; d May 31, 1994, Chicago.	Real-estate developer; businessman; city zoning director.
Chakonas, Christ	b 1848, Zoupena, Greece; d 1930s?	Early leader of Greek community.
Chamberlin, Henry Barrett	b Mar. 10, 1867, Washington, DC; d Aug. 7, 1941, Chicago.	Lawyer; journalist; editor; director Chicago Crime Commission.
Chance, Frank Leroy	b Sept. 9, 1877, Fresno, CA; d Sept. 15, 1924, Los Angeles, CA.	Baseball player; Cubs first baseman and manager; Hall of Fame.
Chapin, John P.	b Apr. 21, 1810, Rutland or Bradford, VT; d June 27, 1864, Chicago.	Boat builder; mayor of Chicago (1846–1847); vice president of Chicago Board of Trade.
Chaplin, Ralph Hosea	b Aug. 30, 1887; d Mar. 23, 1961, Tacoma, WA.	Radical labor activist; journalist; songwriter; poet; wrote “Solidarity Forever.”
Chatfield, Alonzo B.	b Nov. 26, 1810, Armenia, NY; d May 31, 1893.	Early settler, Lisle area.
Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart	b Mar. 24, 1865, Chicago; d Jan. 16, 1945.	Writer; established political review America; foreign correspondent, Daily News.
Che Che Pin Qua	See Robinson, Alexander
Cheney, Flora	b Mar. 11, 1872, Fond du Lac, WI; d Apr. 8, 1929, Chicago.	Women's suffrage and good government activist; first president of Illinois League of Women Voters; state legislator (1928).
Chermayeff, Serge Ivan	b Oct. 8, 1900, Gozny, Caucasus; d May 8, 1996, Wellfleet, MA	Architect; Illinois Institute of Technology faculty; president of Chicago Institute of Design.
Chesbrough, Ellis Sylvester	b July 6, 1813, Baltimore, MD; d Aug. 18 or 19, 1886, Chicago.	Civil engineer; Public Works commissioner; planned Chicago sewerage system.
Chess, Leonard S.	b Mar. 12, 1907, Motele, Poland; d Oct. 16, 1969, Chicago.	Founded Chess Records; owned radio station and nightclub.
Chester, Art	b Dec. 10, 1899, Downers Grove, IL; d 1949, San Diego, CA.	Air racing champion; aircraft designer.
Chevalier, Marie Réaume L'Archeveque	active eighteenth century.	Illini woman living at Fort St. Joseph; fur trader.
Chicago	active early eighteenth century.	Illinois tribal leader; Michigamea chief; visited Paris in 1725; (note: not namesake for city).
Childs, Charles R.	b Mar. 28, 1875, Elmwood, IL; d Jan. 14, 1960, Chicago.	Postcard photographer.
Chmielinska, Stefania	b Mar. 16, 1866, Warsaw, Poland; d Feb. 24, 1939, Chicago.	Seamstress; women's rights activist; organized Polish Women's Alliance of America.
Chorpenning, Charlotte	b Jan. 3 or 5, 1872; d Jan. 7, 1955, Warwick, NY.	Playwright; teacher; developed children's theater at Goodman Theatre.
Christman, Paul J.	b Mar. 5, 1918, St. Louis, MO; d Mar. 2, 1970, Lake Forest, IL.	Football player, Chicago Cardinals; television commentator.
Churchill, Deacon Winslow	b Dec. 30, 1770, Plympton, MA; d Sept. 18, 1847.	Early settler of the present Glen Ellyn Township.
Chute, Walter H.	b Apr. 12, 1891; d Apr. 28, 1981, Tucson, AZ.	Director of Shedd Aquarium.
Cicotte, Eddie	b June 19, 1884, Detroit, MI; d May 5, 1969, Detroit, MI.	Baseball player; Chicago White Sox pitcher; involved in “Black Sox Scandal.”
Cincotta, Gale A. [Gail Angeles]	b Dec. 28, 1929, Chicago; d Aug. 15, 2001, Maywood, IL.	Neighborhood activist; president of Organization for a Better Austin.
Clark, Dee	b Nov. 7, 1938, Blythesville, AR; d Dec. 7, 1990, Smyrna, GA.	R&B vocalist; member, Kool Gents; recorded for Vee-Jay Records.
Clark, Frank	active late nineteenth century.	Community leader; president of incorporated Lake Zurich in 1896.
Clark, John Kinzie	b ca. 1784, near Fort Wayne, IN? d 1865, Chicago.	Fur trader; known as “Indian Clark.”
Clark, Mark	b June 28, 1947, Peoria, IL; d Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago.	Black Panther chairman in Peoria; killed in 1969 police raid.
Clarke, Caroline Palmer	b Dec. 31, 1806, Sangerfield, NY; d Jan. 9, 1860, Buffalo, NY.	Resident of Clarke House (one of Chicago's oldest surviving structures).
Clarke, George W.	b Feb. 8, 1810, Brownsville, PA; d Aug. 15, 1866, Chicago.	Civil. engineer; owned large portion of Indiana Territory.
Clarke, George “Colonel” R.	b Feb. 22, 1827, Otsego County, NY; d June 22, 1892.	Cofounder of Pacific Garden Mission; lawyer.
Clarke, Sarah D.	b Nov. 3, 1835, Cayuga County, NY; d Jan. 29, 1918, Hinsdale, IL.	Founded Pacific Garden Mission.
Clarkson, Ralph	b Aug. 3, 1861, Amesbury, MA; d Apr. 5, 1942, Orlando, FL.	Portrait painter; promoted art in Chicago; president of Chicago Society of Artists.
Clavey, Gordon E.	b June 1, 1917, Highland Park, IL; d July 14, 1998, FL.	Nurseryman; owned land that became Vernon Hills.
Cleaver, Charles	b July 21, 1814, London, England; d Oct. 27, 1893, Chicago.	Real-estate developer; founded Cleaverville.
Cleveland, Horace William Shaler	b Dec. 16, 1814, Lancaster, MA; d Dec. 5, 1900, Hinsdale, IL.	Landscape architect; planned Drexel Boulevard, Washington Park, and Downers Grove.
Cloes, Catherine	b Germany; d 1872.	Resident of Lake Bluff, 1830s; established Cloes brickyard in 1860.
Cloes, John	b 1797, Germany; d declared legally dead in Jan. 1851.	First Euro-American Lake Bluff resident; blacksmith; joined Gold Rush in 1840s.
Close, Del	b Mar. 9, 1934, Manhattan, KS; d Mar. 4, 1999, Chicago.	Actor; improvisational comic; performer and director of Second City.
Clybourne, Archibald	b Aug. 28, 1802, Pearisburgh, VA; d Aug. 23, 1872, Chicago.	Butcher; built the city's first slaughterhouse; first Justice of the Peace (1831).
Cobb, Henry Ives	b Aug. 19, 1859, Brookline, MA; d Mar. 27, 1931, New York, NY.	Architect; designed Chicago Opera House, Newberry Library, buildings at Univ. of Chicago.
Cochran, John Lewis	b Mar. 23, 1857, Sacramento, CA; d Sept. 25, 1923, Chicago.	Real-estate developer; founded Edgewater; promoter and first president, Northwestern Elevated Railroad.
Cody, John Patrick	b Dec. 24, 1907, St. Louis, MO; d Apr. 25, 1982, Chicago.	Roman Catholic archbishop of Chicago (1965–1982); cardinal (1967–1982).
Coey, Charles A.	b 1870, Redfield, NY; d July 2, 1952, Chicago.	Automobile livery owner; opened first public garage in Chicago.
Coffey, Cornelius	b Sept. 6, 1902; d Mar. 2, 1994, Chicago.	Aviator; trained many of Tuskegee Airmen.
Cogley, John	b Mar. 16, 1916, Chicago; d Mar. 29, 1976, Santa Barbara, CA.	Journalist; editor of Catholic Worker; operated a house for homeless men in Chicago.
Cohen, George	b Aug. 4, 1919; d Apr. 18, 1999, Evanston, IL.	Artist; figure painter; Northwestern Univ. faculty.
Cole, George E.	b Mar. 2, 1845, Jackson, MI; d Aug. 18, 1930, Winnetka, IL.	Stationer; printer; organized 1896 Municipal Voters League.
Cole, Nat “King”	b Mar. 17, 1919, Montgomery, AL; d Feb. 15, 1965, Santa Monica, CA.	Jazz pianist; singer; first African American to host TV show on NBC.
Cole, Robert Alexander	b Oct. 8, 1882, Mount Carmel, TN; d July 27, 1956, Chicago.	Founded Metropolitan Funeral System; chairman, Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Co.
Coleman, Bessie	b Jan. 26, 1892, Atlanta, TX; d Apr. 30, 1926, Jacksonville, FL.	Aviator; first black woman pilot.
Collins, Edward Trowbridge	b May 2, 1887, Millerton, NY; d Mar. 25, 1951, Boston, MA.	Baseball player in Hall of Fame; manager of White Sox.
Colosimo, James	b 1877, Cosenza, Calabria, Italy; d May 11, 1920, Chicago.	Restaurant owner; Chicago mob boss before Capone.
Colvin, Harvey Doolittle	b Dec. 18, 1815, Herkimer County, NY; d Apr. 16, 1892, Jacksonville, FL.	Mayor of Chicago (1873–1875).
Comiskey, Charles A.	b Aug. 15, 1859, Chicago; d Oct. 26, 1931, Eagle River, WI.	Baseball player; owned and managed Chicago White Sox.
Comiskey, John “Honest John”	sb ca. 1830, Crosserlough, Ireland; d Jan. 8, 1900, Chicago.	Alderman; father of Charles A. Comiskey.
Compton, Arthur Holly	b Sept. 10, 1892, Wooster, OH; d Mar. 15, 1962, Berkeley, CA.	Physicist; directed Manhattan Project at Univ. of Chicago; shared 1927 Nobel Prize for Physics.
Compton, Frank E.	b 1874 or 1875, Wisconsin Rapids, WI; d May 13, 1950, La Jolla, CA.	Chairman of F. E. Compton & Co.; publisher of Compton's Encyclopedia.
Condon, Eddie [Albert Edwin Condon]	b Nov. 16, 1905, Goodland, IN; d Aug. 4, 1973, New York, NY.	Jazz banjo player; club owner; bandleader; recorded with “The Chicagoans.”
Condon, John	b ca. 1855; d Aug. 9, 1915, Chicago.	Racetrack owner; gambler; opened Harlem Race Track (1894).
Cone, Fairfax M.	b Feb. 21, 1903, San Francisco, CA; d June 20, 1977, Carmel, CA.	Founder and chairman of Foote, Cone & Belding advertising company.
Connolly, James	b June 5, 1868, Edinburgh, Scotland; d May 12, 1916, Dublin, Ireland.	Socialist; trade union organizer.
Conroy, Jack [John Wesley Conroy]	b Dec. 5, 1898, Moberly, MO; d Feb. 28, 1990, Moberly, MO.	Author (Anyplace but Here, with Arna Bontemps); folklorist; editor; worked on Illinois Writers' Project (1938–1941).
Conti, Elmer W.	b Apr. 9, 1921; d Jan. 4, 1988, Elmwood Park, IL.	Bank president; village president of Elmwood (1953–1985); state representative.
Conzelman, James [James Gleason Dunn]	b Mar. 6, 1898, St. Louis, MO; d July 31, 1970, St. Louis, MO.	Football player; coached Chicago Cardinals to NFL championship in 1947.
Cook, Andrew	b Nov. 5, 1801, Stamford, VT; d Dec. 31, 1884.	Platted Wauconda, originally called Bangs Lake.
Cook, Ansel Brainerd	b Aug. 18, 1823, Haddom, CT; d June 10, 1898, Libertyville, IL.	Sidewalk contractor; president of Chicago City Council (late 1860s).
Cook, Daniel Pope	b 1794 or 1795, Scott County, KY; d Oct. 16, 1827, Scott County, KY.	Lawyer; first attorney general of Illinois; U.S. congressman (1819–1827); namesake of Cook County.
Cook, Ezra A.	b Nov. 5, 1841, Windsor, CT; d Sept. 15, 1911, Wheaton, IL.	Publisher; temperance leader.
Cooke, David Brainerd	b Feb. 10, 1826, OH or Northampton, MA; d Oct. 21, 1884, Chicago.	Early Chicago bookseller; publisher of “Blackwell's Reports”; partner of S. C. Griggs.
Cooke, Flora J.	b Dec. 25, 1864, Bainbridge, OH; d Feb. 21, 1953, Chicago.	Progressive educator; founding principal, Francis W. Parker School; aided in establishing North Shore Country Day School and Roosevelt Univ.
Cooke, Sam	b Jan. 22, 1931, Clarksdale, MS; d Dec. 11, 1964, Hollywood, CA.	Musician; singer; songwriter; known for “Twisting the Night Away.”
Cooley, Edwin G.	b Mar. 12, 1854, Strawberry Point, IA; d Sept. 28, 1923, New Trier, IL.	Educator; principal of Chicago Normal College; Superintendent of Chicago schools.
Coon, W. D.	active 1850s.	Established farm in Vernon Hills in 1851.
Cooper, Jack L.	b Sept. 18, 1888, Memphis, TN; d Jan. 12, 1970, Chicago.	Radio personality; first African American disc jockey in Chicago; began radio career in 1926.
Cooper, Oswald Bruce	b Apr. 13, 1879, Mount Gilead, OH; d Dec. 17, 1940, Chicago.	Calligrapher; typographic designer.
Coopersmith, Harry	b Dec. 5, 1902, Russia; d Dec. 1975.	Composer; musical director; founded Halevi Choral Society in 1926.
Copley, Ira C.	b Oct. 25, 1864, Copley Township, IL; d Nov. 2, 1947, Aurora, IL.	Newspaper chain founder; publisher of newspapers in Illinois and California.
Corbett, Harvey Wiley	b Jan. 8, 1873, San Francisco, CA; d Apr. 21, 1954, NY.	Architect; chairman of Architectural Commission for Century of Progress.
Cornell, Paul	b Aug. 5, 1822, White Creek, NY; d Mar. 3, 1904, Chicago.	Lawyer; real-estate developer; founded Hyde Park; South Park commissioner.
Cornish, Andrew	b June 27, 1782, New Ashford, Berkshire, MA; d Jan. 2, 1846, Algonquin, IL.	Physician; Cornish's Ferry was renamed Algonquin around 1836.
Correll, Charles J.	b Feb. 2, 1890, Peoria, IL; d Sept. 26, 1972, Chicago.	Radio comedian; cocreator of “Amos 'n' Andy.”
Corrigan, Edward	b ca. 1842, Ireland; d July 4, 1924, Kansas City, MO.	Racetrack owner; controlled Hawthorne Race Track.
Cortelyou, John R.	b July 21, 1914, Chicago d Nov. 9, 1996, Chicago.	Natural scientist; priest; president of DePaul Univ. (1964–1981).
Cosimi, Serfino	active late nineteenth century.	Priest; established St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Catholic Church in 1893.
Cossitt, Franklin Dwight	b Sept. 19, 1821, Granby, CT; d July 9, 1900, La Grange, IL.	Real-estate owner; founded village of La Grange.
Couch, Ira	b Nov. 22, 1806, Saratoga County, NY; d Feb. 28, 1857, Havana, Cuba.	Real-estate developer; built Tremont House hotel.
Coughlin, “Bathhouse” John	b Aug. 15, 1860, Connelly's Patch, Chicago; d Nov. 11, 1938, Chicago.	First Ward alderman (1892–1938).
Coulon, Johnny	b Feb. 12, 1889, Toronto, Canada; d Oct. 29, 1973, Chicago.	Boxer; world bantamweight champion (1910–1914); founded Coulon's Gym (1925).
Covell, Marion Francis	b Jan. 10, 1831, Plainfield, IL; d Jan. 20, 1917, Hillside, IL.	Farmer; owned Covell quarries; held public offices in Proviso Township.
Cowles, Henry C.	b Feb. 27, 1869, Kensington, CT; d Sept. 12, 1939, Chicago.	Botanist; worked to establish Cook County Forest Preserve; professor at Univ. of Chicago.
Cowling, Sam	b Jan. 8, 1914, Jeffersonville, IN; d Feb. 14, 1983, Fresno, CA.	Comic; radio-TV writer on Don McNeill's Breakfast Club.
Crain, Gustavus Dedman, Jr.	b Nov. 19, 1885, Lawrenceburg, KY; d Dec. 15, 1973, Evanston, IL.	Publisher; founded Crain Communications; published Advertising Age.
Cram, George F.	b May 20, 1842, Lowell, MA; d Mar. 24, 1928.	Engraver; published maps and atlases.
Crandall, Beman	b Oct. 12, 1794, Cicero, NY; d Oct. 25, 1884, Brownsville, MO.	Arrived in IL ca. 1832; platted east shore village in Crystal Lake in 1840.
Crane, Richard T.	b May 15, 1832, Paterson, NJ; d Jan. 8, 1912, Chicago.	Inventor; manufacturer; founded plumbing company in 1855.
Crawford, Peter	b 1795 or 1796, Argyleshire, Scotland; d Dec. 7, 1876, Chicago.	Real-estate speculator; lumber dealer; early carpenter and home builder.
Crawford, Ruth [Ruth Porter Crawford Seeger]	b July 3, 1901, East Liverpool, OH; d Nov. 18, 1953, Chevy Chase, MD.	Composer; teacher; scholar of American folk music.
Crerar, John	b Mar. 8, 1827, New York, NY; d Oct. 19, 1889, Chicago.	Merchant; banker; philanthropist; endowed John Crerar Library.
Cret, Paul Philippe	b Oct. 23, 1876, Lyon, France; d Sept. 8, 1945, Philadelphia, PA.	Architect; educator; member of architectural commission for Century of Progress Exposition.
Crilly, Daniel Francis	b Oct. 14, 1838, Mercersburg, PA; d June 19, 1921, Chicago.	Early builder; real-estate developer; designed Crilly Court and built much of what is now Old Town.
Cromie, Robert A.	b Feb. 28, 1909, Detroit, MI; d May 22, 1999, Grayslake, IL.	War correspondent; sports writer; columnist; radio and television host.
Crooks, Ramsay	b Jan. 2, 1787, Greenock, Scotland; d June 6, 1859, New York, NY.	Fur trader; agent and president of American Fur Trade Co.
Crosby, Uranus (Uriah) H.	b Aug. 17, 1831, Brewster, MA; d Mar. 25, 1903, Brewster, MA.	Distiller; founded Crosby Opera House in 1865.
Crowen, Samuel N.	b July 17, 1873, Bresla, Germany; d Jan. 16, 1935, Lake Forest, IL.	Architect specializing in apartment houses; designed Willoughby Tower in Chicago.
Crowley, Ruth	b ca. 1907; d July 19, 1955, Lake Forest, IL.	Television personality; feature writer for Chicago Sun-Times.
Crown, Henry	b June 13, 1896, Chicago; d Aug. 14, 1990, Chicago.	Entrepreneur; philanthropist; cofounded Material Service Corp.
Crown, Irving	b Dec. 9, 1894, Chicago; d Mar. 1, 1987, Chicago.	Philanthropist; cofounded Material Services Corp.
Crunelle, Leonard	b July 8, 1872, Pas-de-Calais, France; d Sept. 10, 1944, Chicago.	Sculptor; designed Victory Monument honoring World War I Africans.
Cullerton, “Foxy Ed” Edward F.	b Oct. 12, 1841, Chicago; d Feb. 1, 1920, Chicago.	Alderman (1871–1892, 1892–1920); state legislator.
Cuneo, John F.	b Dec. 24, 1884, Chicago; d Apr. 30, 1977, Chicago.	Real-estate developer; philanthropist; founded Cuneo Press.
Currey, Margery	b ca. 1876, NY; d Aug. 15, 1959, New York, NY.	Society editor for Chicago Tribune in the 1920s.
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond	b May 21, 1878, Hammondsport, NY; d July 23, 1930, Buffalo, NY.	Aviator; airplane designer and builder; built Curtiss-Reynolds Field in Glenview.
Curtiss, Samuel	b 1789, CT; d Feb. 25, 1867, Downers Grove, IL.	Farmer; established subdivision in Downers Grove.
Cutler, Charlie	active 1910s.	Wrestler; national champion (1914–1915).