Photo: formulanone from Huntsville, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Braidwood has made the famous people list yet
Greg Washburn leads the 3 names listed next door in Coal City. The longest list of any town in Illinois belongs to Alton, with 65. After Alton, the next longest list in Illinois is Champaign City Township’s, with 64. Across Illinois, 747 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Braidwood), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Braidwood has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Braidwood
Close by, the fullest list is Coal City’s, at 3 names.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Braidwood and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.