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Brad
Lidge (pro
baseball
pitcher)
As Houston Astros pitcher and best closer for
the National League in 2005, his pitch was
clobbered by Chicago White Sox left fielder
Scott Podsednik in the bottom of the ninth
inning of World Series Game Two. giving the
White Sox a thrilling 7-6 victory. Brad,
who was raised in California, is grandson of
Ralph Lidge, M.D., a retired orthopedic surgeon
who was highly regarded in his days as an orthopedic
surgeon at Northwest Community Healthcare in
Arlington Heights. Abraham Lincoln
(16th
U.S. President)
Elected to Illinois State Legislature, 1834.
Springfield, Illinois was the location of the
only home Lincoln ever owned. Abraham
Lincoln Presidential Library and
Museum
-- John Loprieno (actor)
star of daytime soap operas, grew up in Elk
Grove Village, Illinois, graduated from Elk
Grove High School in 1978.
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