List of Famous people born in Illinois, United States of America

Lynzee Klingman is an American film editor known for her work on films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and A River Runs Through It. She has also taught editing at the University of Southern California.

Andrew Hill was an American jazz pianist and composer.

Edward Adelbert Doisy was an American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1943 with Henrik Dam for their discovery of vitamin K and its chemical structure.

Joseph C. Wright was an American art director. He won 2 Academy Awards and was nominated for 10 more in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 86 films between 1923 and 1969. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in Oceanside, California.

Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. and Richard Albert Loeb, usually referred to collectively as Leopold and Loeb, were two wealthy students at the University of Chicago who in May 1924 kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago, Illinois, United States. They committed the murder—characterized at the time as "the crime of the century"—as a demonstration of their ostensible intellectual superiority, which, they thought, enabled them to carry out a "perfect crime" and absolve them of responsibility for their actions.

Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. and Richard Albert Loeb, usually referred to collectively as Leopold and Loeb, were two wealthy students at the University of Chicago who in May 1924 kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago, Illinois, United States. They committed the murder—characterized at the time as "the crime of the century"—as a demonstration of their ostensible intellectual superiority, which, they thought, enabled them to carry out a "perfect crime" and absolve them of responsibility for their actions.

Andrew Davis is an American film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer who is known for directing Holes, and a number of successful action thrillers including Code of Silence, Above the Law, Under Siege, and The Fugitive.

Charles LeMaire was an American costume designer. He was born in Chicago.

Lucy Kaplansky is an American folk musician based in New York City. Kaplansky has a PhD in clinical psychology from Yeshiva University and plays guitar, mandolin, and piano.

Aloysius John Wycisło was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the eighth bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin, from 1968 to 1983. Previously he was an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Chicago in Illinois.