Famous People Born in Illinois
- Addams, Jane (Cedarville)
- Alinsky, Saul (Chicago)
- Allen, Joan (Rochelle)
- Anderson, Gillian (Chicago)
- Ashcroft, John (Chicago)
- Auel, Jean M. (Chicago)
- Belushi, John (Chicago)
- Blagojevich, Rod (Chicago)
- Bosley, Tom (Chicago)
- Bradbury, Ray (Waukegan)
- Brott, Armin (Chicago)
- Burris, Roland W. (Centralia)
- Busey, Brook (Lemont)
- Chandler, Raymond (Chicago)
- Clark, Wesley K. (Chicago)
- Clinton, Hillary Rodham (Chicago)
- Clowes, Daniel (Chicago)
- Coleman, Gary (Zion)
- Conrad, Robert (Chicago)
- Cornelius, Don (Chicago)
- Craig, Yvonne (Taylorville)
- Crawford, Cindy (De Kalb)
- Crichton, Michael (Chicago)
- Cusack, John (Evanston)
- Davis, Miles (Alton)
- Dick, Philip K. (Chicago)
- Disney, Walt (Chicago)
- Duncan, Arne (Chicago)
- Earp, Wyatt (Monmouth)
- Ebert, Roger (Urbana)
- Emanuel, Rahm (Chicago)
- Fischer, Bobby (Chicago)
- Flatley, Michael (Chicago)
- Flockhart, Calista (Freeport)
- Ford, Betty (Chicago)
- Ford, Harrison (Chicago)
- Fosse, Bob (Chicago)
- Franz, Dennis (Maywood)
- Franzen, Jonathan (Western Springs)
- Gacy, John Wayne (Chicago)
- Goodman, Benny (Chicago)
- Griffin, Kathy (Oak Park)
- Hannah, Daryl (Chicago)
- Heatherton, Erin (Skokie)
- Hefner, Hugh (Chicago)
- Hemingway, Ernest (Oak Park)
- Hersh, Seymour (Chicago)
- Heston, Charlton (Evanston)
- Hickok, "Wild Bill" (Troy Grove)
- Hokinson, Helen (Mendota)
- Holden, William (O'fallon)
- Howard, Terrence (Chicago)
- Hudson, Jennifer (Chicago)
- Hudson, Rock (Winnetka)
- Hunt, Bonnie (Chicago)
- Jones, Quincy (Chicago)
- Kaczynski, Ted (Evergreen Park)
- Kennedy, Ethel (Chicago)
- Koenig, Walter (Chicago)
- Krauss, Alison (Decatur)
- Kroc, Ray (Oak Park)
- Krzyzewski, Mike (Chicago)
- LaHood, Ray (Peoria)
- Lansing, Sherry (Chicago)
- Ludacris (Champaign)
- Lynch, Jane (Dolton)
- Madsen, Virginia (Chicago)
- Malick, Terrence (Ottawa)
- Malkovich, John (Christopher)
- Marling, Brit (Chicago)
- Mayfield, Curtis (Chicago)
- McCarthy, Jenny (Chicago)
- McCarthy, Melissa (Plainfield)
- McDormand, Frances (Chicago)
- McGruder, Aaron (Chicago)
- Moseley-Braun, Carol (Chicago)
- Murray, Bill (Wilmette)
- Ness, Eliot (Chicago)
- Newhart, Bob (Oak Park)
- Novak, Kim (Chicago)
- Novak, Robert (Joliet)
- Obama, Malia (Chicago)
- Obama, Michelle (Chicago)
- Obama, Sasha (Chicago)
- Petersen, William (Evanston)
- Pryor, Richard (Peoria)
- Ray, James Earl (Alton)
- Rayburn, Gene (Christopher)
- Reagan, Ronald (Tampico)
- Richards, Denise (Downer's Grove)
- Ruby, Jack (Chicago)
- Rumsfeld, Donald (Chicago)
- Sajak, Pat (Chicago)
- Sandburg, Carl (Galesburg)
- Scott-Heron, Gil (Chicago)
- Shriver, Maria (Chicago)
- Silverstein, Shel (Chicago)
- Stevens, John Paul (Chicago)
- Stevenson, McLean (Normal)
- Till, Emmett (Chicago)
- Vance, Danitra (Chicago)
- Wade, Dwyane (Chicago)
- Wadlow, Robert (Alton)
- Watson, James (Chicago)
- White, Betty (Oak Park)
- Williams, Robin (Chicago)
- Woodward, Bob (Geneva)
- Zevon, Warren (Chicago)
- Zmed, Adrian (Chicago)