Illinois Hall of Fame
This great State has been the fertile ground for thousands of talented and productive people. Levois reminded me of Congressman William Levi Dawson and his leadership of black Americans during and after the Great Migration from the South.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Levi_Dawson_(politician)
So many talented people have called Illinois home, even those like Congressman Dawson who were born elsewhere -as was our greatest native son Abraham Lincoln. This State has no Hall of Fame. There are many people who would qualify aside from Lincoln, Sandburg, Jane Adams, and the more highly touted Illinoisans
Poster's Note ( 6/12/06 8:40AM): I neglected to cite Mark Rhoads' fine Hall of Fame Feature in Illinois Review
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/mark_rhoads/
I wish to name my top ten. Name Yours.
1. William L. Dawson - politician ( Chicago)
2. Steve Allen - Genius ( Chicago)
3. Lt. Pat O'Brien ( WWI Aviator, author, silent screen star Momence, IL)
4. James Butler Hickock ( Lawman - Troy Grove, IL)
5. James J. Shields (U.S. Senator for IL, MN, MO; General Mexican war, Civil war Springfield,IL)
6. Joseph Smith ( Religious leader founder of the Mormons Nauvoo, IL)
7. Charlie Birger (Southern Illinois Arch-criminal Carbondale, IL)
8. Joseph Glidden (Inventor of Barbed Wire DeKalb,IL)
9. Clara Barton & Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis Quincy, IL
10. George Cardinal Mundelein ( American Churchman , Mundelein, IL)
14 comments:
Hickey get back over to the 19 ward agenda and kick some ass
Never get into a p@$$ing contest with skunks.
Too bad that a forum is merely a tool for wannabees.
How can you forget:
John Deere (bigger than barbed wire)
John Logan (better Civil War general than Shields)
John Peter Altgeld (what other pol else gets a good poem?)
If you want to honor Joseph Smith, make sure you honor Elijah Muhammad while you're at it.
Denise Richards, Jenny McCarthy, Robin Tunney, Lara Flynn Boyle, Camryn Manheim, John Malkovich, John Belushi, Richard Pryor, Sam Kennison, Hugh Hefner, Shel Silverstein, and Robert Ingersoll. Your dirty dozen, as it were.
Bloody Bill Quantril was from Mendota. Wyatt Earp was from Monmoth. Bill "Mad Dog" Madlock is from Decatur. Adlai Stevenson I II III (an McLean Stevenson) are from Bloomington. Gene Hackman and Dick Van Dyke are from Danville, to name a few big ones.
JB POwers what is your icon a photo of? It looks like a church
I do like Gene Hackman
Joseph Smith is a big part of history and as of yet a bigger impact than Elijah Mohammad
Was Cardinal Mundelein the great builder?
Cardinal Ireland was the founder of Modern Orthodoxy (sarcastically).
Yes, George Mundelein was the great architect of Catholic Chicago and initiated the building of St. Mary's Seminary in the town now named for him. He was also a great Americanizer of Chicago's Catholics and attempted to end the ethnic parochialism in our Church.
I don't think that Ireland was a Cardinal but an archbishop of St. Paul, MN .
Had a guy like Mundelein been in control of any diocese today, I do not think that the American Church would have attempted to whitewash the pedophile priest scandals destroying what Mundelein worked so hard to build.
Bishop Ireland did not understand the Eastern Rite priests and did not know there were married priests who were legitimately Catholic. He was culturally insensetive and he wanted the Ukraianians, Ruthenians, etc. to assimilate with the Poles and Germans with Latin priests. He especially did not like the language, the beards, the ethnic separation, the married priests, etc. He viewed them as exotic, foreign, not Roman, and Orthodox not Catholic--even though they were fully Catholic. Ireland was mean spirited and resulted in a full scale exodus of Eastern Rite from Catholicism into the Russian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church of America. Law Suits over land, seminaries etc resulted. There have been apologies decades later of Bishop Ireland (from Minnesota)
Mundelein I think was German, and a great great builder. He built schools, churches, hospitals and was the key to parochial education which like Hickey I agree is a great thing.
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