History · Chicago Heights
Famous people from Chicago Heights
44 notable people were born in Chicago Heights, from 1875 to 2002.
John Stossel
born 1947 American consumer reporter, investigative journalist, author and libertarian columnist
Don Bacon
born 1963 American politician
Paris Barclay
born 1956 American television director and producer
Jermaine Love
born 1989 American basketball player
Jerry Colangelo
born 1939 American basketball player, coach, executive
Matt Fraction
born 1975 American comic book writer
Olayinka Sanni
born 1986 American basketball player
Debbie Halvorson
born 1958 American politician
Joe Farrell
1937–1986 American jazz saxophonist and flutist
Todd Krygier
born 1965 American ice hockey player
Jeff Slade
1941–2012 American professional basketball player
Anthony DeLuca
born 1970 American politician
Johnny Pate
born 1923 American record producer
Tom Erikson
born 1964 American amateur wrestler, mixed martial artist and kickboxer
Joe Gentile
born 1967 Author, Comic book writer, Book publisher
L.T. Hutton
born 1974 American record producer
Leroy Jackson
born 1939 American football player
Mike Downey
1951–2024 American journalist
Mike Prior
born 1963 American football player
Bret Prinz
born 1977 American baseball player
Jan Janssen
born 1952 American ice hockey player
John Mosca
1925–2011 American restaurateur
Ted Pawelek
1919–1964 American baseball player
Tom Wieghaus
born 1957 American baseball player
Wally Flager
1921–1990 American baseball player
Walter Young
born 1979 American football player
Dante Maddox
born 2002 American basketball player
Ernie McMillan
1938–2024 American football player
James Zahn
born 1976 American actor and screenwriter
Joseph E. Chapman
born 1984 American basketball player
Nancy Kaszak
born 1950 Politician
Sandra McGee Deutsch
born 1950 United States historian
Tim Kelly
born 1986 American football coach born 1986
Abby McCoy
born 1999 American pornographic performer
Amber Stucke
born 1980 Artist
Charles Culver
1908–1967 Painter
Dale Meyer
born 1947 American, president of Concordia Seminary, and Lutheran pastor
Frederick Charles Oswald
born 1875
Katharine G. Butler
1925–2019 Speech-language pathologist and academic
Nicholas Elias Collias
1914–2010 American biologist, university teacher
Norman R. Glenn
1909–1999 Founded Sponsor magazine, a publication geared towards broadcasting advertisers, in 1946
Robert V. Ruhe
1918–1993 American geologist
Ronald J. Reynolds
born 1943 American astronomy professor
Tom Thayer
born 1970 American artist and educator