Photo: MrHarman · CC BY-SA 3.0North Riverside has yet to put a famous person on the list
Of the bordering towns, Berwyn has the longest list: 36, with Bob Odenkirk at the top. Across Illinois, the lists cover 759 towns. The longest list in Illinois is Alton’s, with 65 names. Champaign City Township has the second-longest list in Illinois, after Alton, with 64.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is North Riverside), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in North Riverside has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near North Riverside
Around it, Berwyn has the most people on record, 36 of them.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is North Riverside 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.
Photo credits (1)
- Bill Idelson: Macfadden Publications, Inc., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons