History in East Garfield Park

In the Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica at 3121 West Jackson Boulevard, Jim Malone (Sean Connery) talks to Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) in what is arguably the most quoted scene of the movie.  "He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way," Malone says.

Alexander Beaubien is believed to have been the first caucasian child born in Chicago. He entered the world on January 28, 1822, at Fort Dearborn, and 331 South Whipple Street was his home (the address was originally 98 South Whipple Street) when he died on March 25, 1907.

John Marshall Metropolitan High School (commonly known as Marshall) opened in 1895 at 3250 West Adams Street, and its men's basketball team was featured prominently in the 1994 documentary "Hoop Dreams."  The girls' basketball team has won eight state championships, while the men's team has captured the title thrice.  Marshall's alumni include physicist Jerome Issac Friedman, who won the 1990 Noble Prize for physics; Tony and Emmy award-winning writer Larry Gelbart; mystery writer Stuart M. Kaminsky; teacher and motivational speaker Arthur Agee, who was profiled in "Hoop Dreams;" 2008 gold medal winner and WNBA All-Star Cappie Pondexter; Dr. Julius Richmond, the 12th Surgeon General of the United States; NFL wide receiver Darryl Stingley (who was rendered a quadriplegic in a horrific and famous preseason collision with Jack Tatum); NBA center George Wilson; and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Robert Gruenberg.