Talk:List of people from Illinois

This is a list of people FROM Illinois
I'd like to know who you think you are putting restrictions on this list and removing people who have a direct CONNECTION to Illinois - WHO CARES WHEN IT WAS DURING THEIR LIFE! It is just as the title says, list of people FROM Illinois!!! Duh! WHAT PART OF FROM DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND! If a person is FROM Illinois and has a valid article in Wikipedia that reflects that FACT, their name should be included on this list. Cricket02 03:21, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I care when it happened. There wewre maybe 50,000,000 people who lived in Illinois at one time or another. Doubtless THOUSANDS of people listed in Wiki lived there at one time or another, so we need to restrict the list to people with a serious connection, not those who jumped ship as soon as they graduated. Rjensen 12:13, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Suggestion to rename
This was partially addressed in the last section ... but I thought it needed rehashing. The generic interpretation of "from Illinois" is that they were born and, in most cases, raised in the state. The inclusion criteria statement in the article states "This is a list of people whose career was all or part in Illinois; people are not included if they left the state before beginning a career." I would suggest that the list be renamed to the (perhaps inglorious) title "Notable people who have worked in Illinois" or maybe "Notable people who have had careers in Illinois". Thanks for considering this. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 01:40, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * On the subject of this section and the previous: This criteria, if enforced, would seem to make the page a bit different than it seems now. Hillary Rodham Clinton should be removed; she left right after graduating from high school.  I haven't seen evidence that Richard Pryor was still in Peoria by the time his stand-up career started.  Ronald Reagan left right after graduating from college.  George Reeves left Illinois by age 11.  Fulton J. Sheen was ordained in Peoria, but didn't live in Peoria after 1927; he started writing books in 1925, but his first radio show was in 1930.  Not that any of those necessarily should be listed.  But conversely, everyone who ever played for any sports team in Illinois seems to meet the criteria for this page, even if they played half a game and couldn't name the streets around the venue; same for every politician who ever served a term for the last 200 years: And Wikipedia presumes them to be notable if they ever played any major league game, was a member of the U.S. or state legislature, or was a mayor of some of the larger cities.  Showbusiness people after Vaudeville tend to have gone to the coasts to start their careers; the same for musicians to some extent.  If the criteria is enforced, the list will be 95% sportspeople and politicians unless those people are broken out into separate sections or pages; there might be some businesspeople or musicians whose careers were in Illinois.  Is there any way to refactor the criteria so that it doesn't become just a sports and legislature reference over time? --Closeapple (talk) 19:38, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I think Illinois draws in a lot of *** people -- and they add more than the folk who leave at age 21. Rjensen (talk) 02:58, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

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