Famous People Who Live in Chicago

Here are some of the more notable residents in around the University of Chicago Booth School of Business:

Oprah Winfrey - TV personality and studio owner

Richard Wright - Novelist

Sam Cooke - Arguably, the “Father of Soul Music”

R. Kelly - Neo Soul vocalist in the Sam Cooke style

Barack & Michelle Obama - President-elect and his wife

Michael Jordan - One of the NBA’s two greatest players

Walter Payton - One of the NFL’s greatest running backs

Jesse Jackson, Jr. - US Congressman representing the Southside