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Fourth Floor Frieze

The names of 35 distinguished Illinois authors are etched into the 4th floor frieze of the Illinois State Library Building.

  • Portait of Lorraine Hansberry
    Lorraine Hansberry
    A Raisin in the Sun; To Be Young, Gifted, and Black; The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window...
  • Portait of Cyrus Colter
    Cyrus Colter
    City of light; The Hippodrome; The rivers of Eros...
  • Portait of James Jones
    James Jones
    Some came running; From here to eternity; The merry month of May...
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Authors arranged by town of birth

Albany Albion Alma Altamont
Alton Anchor Anna Annapolis
Annawan Arcola Arlington Arlington Heights
Armington Ashland Athens Atlanta
Aurora Ava Barry Bartonville
Batavia Bath Beards Belgium
Belleville Bellflower Belvidere Bement
Benson Benton Berkeley Berlin
Berwyn Bingham Bloomington Blue Island
Blue Mound Bluffs Bradford Bridgeport
Brooklyn Browns Buffalo Burlington
Butler Cairo Calumet City Cambridge
Camden Canton Carbondale Carlinville
Carmi Carol Stream Carrollton Carterville
Carthage Cary Cedarville Centralia
Champaign Charleston Chatham Cherry
Chester Chicago Chicago Heights Chrisman
Cicero Cisco Clarendon Hills Clayton
Cleveland Clifton Clinton Collinsville
Columbia Columbus Concord Cuba
Dakota Danville Darien Darmstadt
Dayton Decatur Deer Creek Deerfield
DeKalb Delavan Des Plaines Detroit
Donovan Downers Grove Du Quoin Dwight
Earlville East Alton East Carondelet East Peoria
East St. Louis Edinburg Effingham El Paso
Eldorado Elgin Elizabeth Elmhurst
Emden Erie Evanston Evansville
Evergreen Park Fairview Fairview Heights Farmer City
Farmington Fayetteville Flanagan Flossmoor
Frankfort Franklin Freeport Galesburg
Galva Geneseo Geneva George
German Gibson City Girard Glasgow
Glen Ellyn Golconda Granite City Grayslake
Greenville Hamburg Hamilton Hammond
Hampshire Hampton Hanover Hardin
Harris Harrisburg Harrison Hartford
Harvard Harvey Havana Henderson
Henry Herrin Highland Highland Park
Hillsboro Hinsdale Hoffman Hoffman Estates
Home Hoyleton Hudson Humboldt
Hume Hurst Ina Irving
Jacksonville Jerseyville Johnston City Joliet
Kane Kankakee Kansas Kewanee
Kingston La Grange La Grange Park Lake Forest
Lanark Lansing LaSalle Lawrenceville
Lebanon Lee Lexington Liberty
Libertyville Lima Lincoln Litchfield
Liverpool Lombard Louisville Lovington
Macomb Madison Mahomet Manchester
Manhattan Manito Mansfield Marengo
Marietta Marion Mark Marshall
Maryville Mason Mason City Matteson
Mattoon Maywood McCook McHenry
Melrose Park Metropolis Millstadt Milton
Moline Momence Monmouth Montgomery
Monticello Morris Morton Morton Grove
Mount Carmel Mount Vernon Murphysboro Naperville
Nashville Neponset New Athens New Haven
Newark Niles Noble Nokomis
Normal Norris Norris City North Chicago
North Riverside Norwood O'Fallon Oak Brook
Oak Lawn Oak Park Oakland Oglesby
Ohio Olney Omaha Oregon
Oswego Ottawa Palatine Palos Heights
Palos Hills Palos Park Pana Paris
Park Forest Park Ridge Paw Paw Pawnee
Paxton Payson Pekin Peoria
Peru Petersburg Philo Phoenix
Pittsburg Pittsfield Plainfield Pocahontas
Pontiac Princeton Prospect Heights Quincy
Raleigh Rantoul Richmond Rio
River Forest Riverside Robbins Robinson
Rochester Rock Island Rockford Rome
Royal Rushville Russellville Salem
Savanna Schaumburg Shabbona Sheffield
Shelbyville Sheridan Sidney Silvis
Skokie Sparta Spring Grove Springfield
St. Anne St. Charles St. Joseph St. Peter
Staunton Sterling Stockton Strasburg
Streator Sublette Sumner Sycamore
Tamms Tampico Taylorville Tennessee
Tilton Toledo Topeka Toulon
Trenton Troy Tuscola Ullin
Union University Park Urbana Vandalia
Venice Vernon Vienna Villa Park
Virden Virginia Walnut Warren
Warrensburg Washington Waterloo Watseka
Waukegan Wayne West Chicago West Point
West Salem West Union Westchester Western Springs
Wheaton Wheeling White Heath Wilmette
Wilmington Wilsonville Winchester Winfield
Winnetka Winslow Witt Woodstock
Worth Wyoming Xenia Yale
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