Chicago Wall of Fame
Daniel Burnham**
- 1909 plan of Chicago - Paris on the Prarie - Built some of the most famous buildings in Chicago (ex. Fuller Building) - Architect - City Planner - Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition
Montgomery Ward**
- A businessman who established the mail-order business - Removed trash from the lakefront - Montgomery Ward company - Made it so people couldn't build East of lakeshore drive - Donated 8 million dollars to the art museum
George W. Streeter**
- Crashed into a sandbar then made the sandbar and everything around it his land - "District of Lake Michigan" - it was a garbage dump - Charged people to live on his land - He got busted on tax evasion
Marshall Field**
- Created one of the first department stores in Chicago - Changed the way people shopped - Popularized browsing in stores - Turned shopping into an activity - Known for Marshalls - First to put a restaurant in a store and window shopping
William Rainey Harper**
- Created the idea of junior college. - Started college at age 10 - President at the University of Chicago - Brought professors from Yale to the University of Chicago
Richard W. Sears**
- Founded Sears company - Send no money policy - Made a catelog that went across the country and world (everythng was in the catelog) - Sears started off as a watch company - Sears tower was finished in 1970
Jane Addams**
- Founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes - Civil War officer - Born with a spine defect - couldn't move much - inspired many Americans to fight for what is right - Leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage
Allan Pinkerton
- Founder of the National Pinkerton Detective Agency - President Lincoln appointed him to lead the United States Secert Service for the Union Army - He was named the first and only deputy sheriff of Cook County in 1852, and by 1860, he was a prominent figure in abolitionist circles.
George Pullman**
- Inventor of the Pullman sleeping car - Invented raising buildings by 10 feet by putting a jack under the buildings to get a sewer system underneath - Introduced the first hotel on wheels - Inveneted the fix to foundation sinking - Built a town
Studs Terkel
- Known for interviewing people on the radio - Worked with WPA writers project - Had his own show called "The Wax Museum" - Interviewed people about music, art, and politics - Had his own show called Studs' Place (it was cancelled because it was too political)
Richard J. Daley**
- Mayor of Chicago - He served 6 terms as the mayor of Chicago (21 years) - Major expressways were built when Daley was in office - Encouraged a lot of buildings to be built - Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party Central Committee
George Halas
- NFL wall of fame and coach - Legalized the pass behind the line of scrimmage - Coached the Bears for 40 seasons - 6 championships as a coach
Charles Comiskey
- Owner of the Chicago White Stockings - Known for being really cheap - News reporters would call the White Stockings the Black Stockings because of their dirty uniforms - He changed the way people played first base
Potter Palmer**
- Partnered with Marshall Field - Built the first Palmer house (hotel) - 2nd Palmer house was built with more luxary - Turned State street into a retail center
Charles Walgreen
- Went to school to become a pharmasit - Opened his own pharmacy - Known for the lunch counter - a place for people to go for a quick bite - They used to deliver things to people - America's largest drug store chain