“It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.”
“I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.”
| Keith Carradine, Actor (1949) |
| Benny Carter, Musician (1907) |
| William M. Daley, Politician (1948) |
| Kool Moe Dee, Musician (1962) |
| Roger Federer, Athlete (1981) |
| George Gerbner, Journalist (1919) |
| Brian Harvey, Musician (1974) |
| Alija Izetbegovic, Activist (1925) |
| Dino De Laurentiis, Director (1919) |
| Ernest Lawrence, Scientist (1901) |
| George Canning, Statesman (1827) |
| Ernst Haeckel, Scientist (1919) |
| James Irwin, Astronaut (1991) |
| Shirley Jackson, Novelist (1965) |
| John H. Johnson, Businessman (2005) |