Emmy award winning writer, performer, director, producer
Alumni of Note
Executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists—keepers of the "doomsday clock"
Blues musician and bandleader
Eisner Award-winning cartoonist and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter
Illinois State Representative
United States Secretary of Education
Astrophysicist and Crafoord Prize and MacArthur "genius" award winner
Chicago Alderman
Former director of the school of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater