Politics and Law
- John Ashcroft, Attorney General
- Henry Moore Bates, attorney
- Rod Blagojevich, former congressman, governor of Illinois
- James Bowler, alderman, congressman
- Harris Burgoyne, mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin
- Jane Byrne, mayor of Chicago
- Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago
- Enoch Chase, state senator in Wisconsin
- Bernard J. Cigrand, father of Flag Day in the United States
- Hillary Rodham Clinton, first lady, US senator from N.Y., Secretary of State
- "Bathhouse" John Coughlin, alderman
- Richard J. Daley, mayor of Chicago
- Richard M. Daley, mayor of Chicago
- William M. Daley, White House Chief of Staff, Secretary of Commerce
- Clarence Darrow, attorney and civil libertarian
- Paul Douglas, alderman, senator, University of Chicago economist
- Stephen A. Douglas, senator, presidential candidate, noted for debating Abraham Lincoln
- Rahm Emanuel, current mayor of Chicago, White House Chief of Staff, US congressman
- Edward F. Dunne, governor of Illinois
- Betty Ford, former First Lady; wife of Gerald Ford
- Bernhard Gettelman, state senator for Wisconsin
- Luis V. Gutiérrez, first Latino to be elected to Congress from the Midwest
- John M. Harlan, Supreme Court justice
- Paul P. Harris, lawyer, founder of Rotary International
- Carter Harrison, Jr., mayor of Chicago
- Carter Harrison, Sr., mayor of Chicago
- Janet Jagan, Prime Minister and President of Guyana
- Peter Karađorđević, hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia
- Joe Kernan, 48th governor of Indiana
- Boris Lushniak, Assistant Surgeon General of the United States
- Lisa Madigan, current Attorney General of Illinois
- Michael Madigan, current Speaker of Illinois House of Representatives
- Joseph Medill, newspaper editor, mayor of Chicago
- John Gould Moyer, 31st governor of American Samoa
- Eliot Ness, federal agent; leader of The Untouchables; born in Chicago
- Barack Obama, US senator and 44th President of the United States
- William Butler Ogden, entrepreneur and first mayor of Chicago
- Deval Patrick, governor of the Massachusetts
- John Podesta, White House Chief of Staff for President Bill Clinton (1998–2001)
- Roman Pucinski, US congressman, alderman
- Charles H. Ramsey, former Chicago Police deputy superintendent, now Philadelphia Police Commissioner
- Louis C. Romell, state assemblyman for Wisconsin
- Donald Rumsfeld, US congressman, secretary of Defense
- Robert C. Strong, US diplomat
- William Hale Thompson, last Republican mayor of Chicago
- Amos G. Throop, city treasurer, temperance advocate
- Elihu B. Washburne, secretary of state, minister to France
- Harold Washington, first and only black mayor of Chicago
- John Wentworth, US congressman, mayor of Chicago
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