Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Great thread @USD24 . It’s fun reading through them. Forgot to add Mike Kafka for St. Rita since his name has been in the papers the last month as the QB coach for the SuperBowl Champs Kansas City Chiefs.
St Joseph
Andy Frederick (class of 1973) was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (1977–85) and was a member of the Super Bowl XIIchampion Dallas Cowboys and the Super Bowl XXchampion Chicago Bears.
William Gates (class of 1991) basketball player; subject of the documentary film Hoop Dreams Steven Harris is a professional actor.
Wood Harris is a professional actor and younger brother of Steve Harris.
Demetri McCamey (class of 2007) was a basketball guard for the Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team; he currently plays professionally in Japan Amal McCaskill was a professional basketball player, playing in the NBA (1996–97, 2001–04). Cameron Meredith (class of 2010) is a former NFL wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints and Chicago Bears
Isiah Thomas (class of 1979) NBA player, coach, executive, member of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History team
Evan Turner (class of 2007) is a former All-American, 2010 John Wooden Award winner and National Player of the Year at Ohio State (2007-2010); he currently plays guard/forward for the Portland Trail Blazers
Glynn Watson (class of 2015) is a college basketball player for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the younger brother of Demetri McCamey
Pierre Walters, former NFL player for the Kansas City Chiefs and current Mixed Martial Artist
No Jon Scheyer or Chris CollinsGlenbrook N
Athletes
Jason Kipnis
Scott Sanderson
Anne Henning- Olympic speed skating medalist
JT Compher - Colorado Avalanche
Celebrity/TV
Dave Revsine
Laura Okmin
I’m sure there’s more
Tom Z is a Chicago Firemen now! After spending close to the last two decades with the CPD you see a lot of the players that have been discussed here or that you watched play years earlier that land on the CPD/CFD. I can shout out about 30 former big name All Conference Catholic Leaguers that I’ve personally come across on the job. Football season in the Police Stations and Fire houses is ground zero! Lot of great talk and side bets!Buffalo Grove
Tom Zbikowski, ND All American and NFL player
Tim Bogar, first base coach for World Series winning Nationals and nine year MLB player
Mike Marshall, Dodgers All-Star outfielder who also dated Belinda Carlisle of The GoGos
Josh Paul, White Sox catcher
Brian McBride, soccer legend
Steve Bartman?
Even though he didn’t make it as a pro, Jon Scheyer has to be the biggest high school sports name ever from GBN
I remember seeing him in a school Musical at Joliet East, I think it was the Musical Oklahoma (IDK seems like a lifetime ago.).Joliet East- Lionel Richie!
Jonathan Nolan ‘94 (a double Jesi - went to Georgetown)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Nolan
Seriously though, can any school top Bill Murray in terms of fame? Perhaps Maine East with Hillary or Rahm and NT.
Actor Chris O’Donnell is a Rambler right?
Sports-
Bill Gullickson - baseball pitcher
Sports & Entertainment-
Mark Grant - baseball / San Diego Padres color commentator
Rudy - football / film (Rudy)
Terry Gannon - basketball / sports announcer
This thread could take a dark turn by going down the road of INFAMOUS alums, but I suspect both content and posters could risk the dreaded flush. I'll stop right now.
While certainly Jonathan Nolan has achieved much notoriety in his line of work, I would argue that he isn't nationally or locally famous with anything close to the sort of name recognition of a Murray brother, or even Chris O'Donnell, Bill Plante, Dick Devine, or Neal Katyal.
NT General
Charlton Heston
Rock Hudson
Ann-Margret
Virginia Madsen
John Hughes
Rainn Wilson
Liz Phair
John Stossel
Hugh O'Brian
Scott Turow
Bruce Dern
Christie Hefner
Ann Compton
Chet Coppock (my brother's class at NT)
Walter Jacobson
Senator Charles Percy
Senator Mark Kirk
Donald Rumsfeld
NT Sports
Clay Matthews
Mike Pyle
Rick Hahn
Erik Pappas for baseball?Mount Carmel
Football- Donovan McNabb, Simeon Rice, Chris Calloway, Jordan Lynch (for his numerous Collegiate accomplishments). Several others with short Professional careers.
Baseball- Denny McClain (last pitcher to win 30 games), John Mallee (Angels hitting coach, was Cubs hitting coach for their WS year), and Predicting Alek Thomas.
Hockey- Chris Chellios- Offically not an alum and only an honorary alum due to a family move to California his senior year but he always considers MC his Alma Mater.
Basketball- Antione Walker. Craig Robinson (former Oregon St coach, Michelle Obama’s brother)
Wrestling- US Olympian Joe Williams
Acting- Daniel Sujata (Franco Rivera on Rescue Me, known as Dan Condon, center on the MC 89 Football team, while at MC). Richard Kiley but I think MC63 may be the only one who knows who he is!
Politics- Fast Eddie Vrdolyak.
Robert Conrad (acto) also attended NT, don't know if he graduated.
Not many outside the MC or the South Side community know who he is.Erik Pappas for baseball?
Knock this battery of my shoulder. I dare ya. Loved that commercial growing up!He died just a few days ago. I remember growing up and watching him in the Black Sheep Squadron on TV and my mother telling me that he was my family's milkman for a while back in the 1950s. She specifically remembered him telling her that he was quitting his job to go to Hollywood and give it his best shot. She thought he was going to fail miserably.
I don't know why, but for some reason Conrad handed out trophies at my little league banquet.Knock this battery of my shoulder. I dare ya. Loved that commercial growing up!
The Bull went to ND? I did not know thatI was under the impression that Bartman went to Notre Dame (high school and college). At least that was the story among ND alums. But now I am not so sure.
This article says GBN: https://patch.com/illinois/northbrook/cubs-plan-reach-out-steve-bartman
This article says NND: https://gazettereview.com/2016/12/happened-steve-bartman-now-cubs-won/
Anyways, ND famous alums:
Sports: Greg Luzinski (baseball slugger, 4 time all star), John McDonough (president of the Blackhawks), Michael McCaskey (former chairman of the Bears)
General: James Pankow (member of the band, Chicago)
Fremd produced James Degorski and Juan Luna, who are responsible for the Brown's Chicken murders.
So awful. I remember the night like it was yesterday. My buddy Mike Castro (St. Theresa and PHS - would of been ‘94) was murdered that night. Tragic.Fremd produced James Degorski and Juan Luna, who are responsible for the Brown's Chicken murders.
I remember when they were caught - the ex'es sister used to hang out with those losers during her goth days.So awful. I remember the night like it was yesterday. My buddy Mike Castro (St. Theresa and PHS - would of been ‘94) was murdered that night. Tragic.
Han Solo/Indiana Jones went to Maine East. End Thread.Mic drop!
Marmion Academy
Chick Hern - Voice of the Lakers
Brad Childress - NFL Head Coach
Jim Oberweis of Ice Cream fame
Note....George Ireland was a very successful head coach for Marmion basketball for 20 years (1930 - 1950 ??) before going to win a national title at Loyola in 1963
Jonathan Nolan ‘94 (a double Jesi - went to Georgetown)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Nolan
Seriously though, can any school top Bill Murray in terms of fame? Perhaps Maine East with Hillary or Rahm and NT.
There are some legends from here - no doubt!Han Solo/Indiana Jones went to Maine East. End Thread.
No he’s not, it didn’t take......we’ll leave it at that.Tom Z is a Chicago Firemen now! After spending close to the last two decades with the CPD you see a lot of the players that have been discussed here or that you watched play years earlier that land on the CPD/CFD. I can shout out about 30 former big name All Conference Catholic Leaguers that I’ve personally come across on the job. Football season in the Police Stations and Fire houses is ground zero! Lot of great talk and side bets!
Larry Gura tooI remember seeing him in a school Musical at Joliet East, I think it was the Musical Oklahoma (IDK seems like a lifetime ago.).
My favorite - the guy who dated one of the Go Gos.Buffalo Grove
Mike Marshall, Dodgers All-Star outfielder who also dated Belinda Carlisle of The GoGos
The McCaskey brothers are the most famous brother group. We also have the crazy Smithe furniture brothers and The Flood Disposal brothers.I was under the impression that Bartman went to Notre Dame (high school and college). At least that was the story among ND alums. But now I am not so sure.
This article says GBN: https://patch.com/illinois/northbrook/cubs-plan-reach-out-steve-bartman
This article says NND: https://gazettereview.com/2016/12/happened-steve-bartman-now-cubs-won/
Anyways, ND famous alums:
Sports: Greg Luzinski (baseball slugger, 4 time all star), John McDonough (president of the Blackhawks), Michael McCaskey (former chairman of the Bears)
General: James Pankow (member of the band, Chicago)
\My favorite - the guy who dated one of the Go Gos.
(Personally, I once dated a girl at DePaul who had gone on a date with Dustin Hoffman during the 1968 convention. I'm not sure if anyone had heard of Hoffman at that time.)
Also, you Rita guys missed Lee Loughnane, an original member of Chicago. I knew him at DePaul, as well, but I didn't date him.
Did any of the Rice guys mention John C. Reilly?
But they all pale in comparison to dating one of the Go Gos. Sharp eye, Sparty!