Ann-Margret is a former Chicagoan by way of Northwestern University. networthlist.org
By Megan McKinney
The amazing number of great Hollywood personalities who are “from Chicago” is increased by those, who like speech major Ann-Margret, above, attended Northwestern University.
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Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty is another who gained Chicago “roots” by attendng Northwestern, where he was a Sigma Chi.
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Kim Novak
Kim Novak is pure Chicago. She attended William Penn Elementary, Farragut High School, and Wright Junior College. Then it was The School of the Art Institute. She is an artist as well as an actress. 
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Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando’s Chicago was Evanston as a little boy and a farm near Libertyville as a teen.
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Raquel Welch
The late Raquel Welch was another born in Chicago. She lived at 1354 West Berwyn Avenue, but not for long. She was still a pre-schooler when the family moved to San Diego.
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford is probably the only baby born in Chicago’s Swedish Covenant Hospital during 1942 whose films went on to gross $9.3 billion.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
The fabulous Seinfeld player Julia Louis-Dreyfus also claims “from Chicago” through Northwestern but she also was a member of The Second City.
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Bill Murray
Zany Bill Murray grew up wth eight siblings in a perfectly normal suburban household in the low key community of Wilmette.
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Bob Newhart
Bob Newhart, who was born and raised in Oak Park, stayed in the area long enough to graduate from St. Ignatius College Prep and Loyola University.
And , finally, Colleen Moore
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Possibly the champion of the “from Chicago” Hollywood greats was the silent film star Colleen Moore, who—although not born in Chicago—was raised in the city. Colleen was the quintessential flapper; F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said of her, “I was the spark that lit up Flaming Youth, Colleen Moore was the torch. What little things we are to have caused all that trouble.” But he then added, of her original flapper bob, that it was “the most fateful haircut since Samson’s.”
Colleen Moore Hargrave By Everett
Colleen was not merely “from Chicago” she also returned when she married stockbroker Homer Hargrave, a Chicago widower with two children, becoming an instant mother and one of the city’s best loved grandes dames.
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