Business and Philanthropy
- Bob Bernard, entrepreneur
- Charles Deering, businessman, art collector, and philanthropist
- William Deering, businessman and philanthropist
- Francis Dewes, German immigrant, brewer, millionaire, original owner of the historic mansion Francis J. Dewes House.
- Marshall Field, entrepreneur
- Ada Sawyer Garrett, 19th Century socialite and philanthropist
- William O. Goodman, lumber tycoon
- H. G. Haugan, railroad executive
- Helge Alexander Haugan, banking executive
- Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, early Chicago developer
- Ray Kroc, first CEO of McDonald's
- Matthew Laflin, gunpowder manufacturer and philanthropist
- Charles Magnus Lindgren, shipping cxecutive
- John R. Lindgren, banking Executive
- Horatio G. Loomis, an organizer of the Chicago Board of Trade
- Catherine T. MacArthur, philanthropist
- McCormick family, prominent in business and philanthropy
- Blythe McGarvie, President of Leadership for International Finance, LLC
- Abraham Lincoln Neiman, businessman and member of the Neiman Marcus family
- William S. Paley, CBS executive
- Potter Palmer, entrepreneur
- Bertha Palmer, socialite, philanthropist
- George Pullman, entrepreneur, inventor
- W. Clement Stone, entrepreneur; founder of what is known today as AON Corporation
- Edmund Dick Taylor, known as "Father of the Greenback", banker, railroad executive, entrepreneur
- Charles Yerkes, entrepreneur
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