Harold Washington

Historical marker location:

5300 South Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois

( Marker is at the intersection of East 53rd Street and South Shore Drive, on the right when traveling east on East 53rd Street.)

Marker installed: 1998

Chicago Tribute.

Illinois is the birthplace of several famous people, including former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi, and writer Ernest Hemingway.