Addams, Jane (Cedarville)
1931 Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Hull-House
Famous Activists from Illinois
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Alinsky, Saul (Chicago)
The father of community organizing -
Ellsberg, Daniel (Chicago)
The whistleblower who released the Pentagon Papers in 1971 -
Friedan, Betty (Peoria)
The author of 'The Feminine Mystique' -
Hampton, Fred (Maywood)
The young Black Panther murdered by Chicago police in 1969