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Lou
Rawls (musician,
actor)
Raised by his grandmother on the south side of
Chicago. Jazz and soul musician (iTunes:
Lady
Love,
You'll
Never Find Another Love Like
Mine)and
actor starred in Leaving
Las Vegas,
Still
Breathing,
and more. TV appearances on Solid Gold, Fantasy
Island, Mannix and more. Ronald Reagan
(40th
U.S. President,
actor)
born in Tampico , Illinois (1911-1920) ... later
lived in Dixon, Illinois (1920-1932) ... went
to Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois
(1928-1932) ... (Reaganfoundation.org).
De Leon Richards (actess, singer)
deleonmusic.com
Born in Chicago. Youngest artist ever signed to
a major Gospel label. At age 9, she was youngest
person nominated for a Grammy. Regular role on
ABC's television drama Brewster Place. Married
to New York Yankee Outfielder, Gary Sheffield.
Cynthia Rowley (www.cynthiarowley.com,
fashion designer) works in New York, grew up in
Barrington. Donald Rumsfeld (Secretary of
Defense) born in Chicago in 1932, former CEO of
former G.D. Searle Company and General
Instrument Corporation, which developed first
HDTV. Also former Chairman of Gilead
Sciences
( Y!).
George Ryan (Governor, politics, pharmacist,
military service - U.S. Army) Critic of the
death penalty, he commuted the sentences of all
of the state's death row inmates in January
2003. He was indicted December 2003 on federal
charges of taking payoffs, gifts and vacations
in return for government contracts and leases
while he was Illinois Secretary of State.
Problems originally discovered with bribes in
exchange for truck licenses for unqualified
drivers. James E. Ryan (attorney) former
Illinois
Attorney
General.
James J. Ryan (Judge) former aid to Cook
County Sheriff Michael Sheehan. James T.
Ryan (Judge, politics) former mayor of
Arlington Heights. Won the 1986 Republican
primary for Illinois attorney general, but
dropped out of that race amid allegations that
he battered his wife--she made accusations and
later recanted. In the news for showing his
temper at the Cook County Circuit Court at
Rolling Meadows ("If you lie, you will go to
hell," he allegedly told two girls in his court
before they testified about their dead poodle,
he did not allow a woman to excuse herself to
the washroom until she soiled herself, and fined
another woman for speeding, even though she was
going to the hospital to give birth.)
Patrick George Ryan (Insurance Executive)
founded AON
in 1987 after selling insurance in his father's
auto dealership in the 1960's. Part-owner of
Chicago
Bears.
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