Our 200 for 200 contributors

See each of their recommendations online at suntimes. com.

2017-12-03 -

Lee Bey

is vice president of the DuSable Museum of African American History. He’s a also a writer, photographer and former architecture critic for the Chicago Sun- Times.

Timuel Black

is a teacher, historian, civil rights and political activist. Two volumes of Black’s three- volume work, “Bridges of Memory,” about the black migration to Chicago, have been published, and the third volume is in the works. A fourth book by Black, ‘‘ Sacred Ground,’’ is expected to be published soon.

Gloria Castillo

is president and CEO of Chicago United, a not- for- profi t organization that advocates for multiracial leadership in business. She aims to promote workplace diversity with a passion for advancing inclusion, and social and economic justice, through the lens of business strategy.

Ann Keating

is the Toenniges Professor of History at North Central College in Naperville. She is co- editor of the “Encyclopedia of Chicago” and several books, including “Rising Up From Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago.”

Richard Lindberg

is a lifelong Chicagoan, author, journalist and research historian who has written and published 17 books dealing with aspects of city history, politics, criminal justice, sports and ethnicity. Read all about him at richardlindberg. net.

Dominic Pacyga

is the author of “Chicago: A Biography” and “Slaughterhouse: Chicago’s Union Stock Yard and the World it Made.” He retired last June from teaching history at Columbia College.

James Simeone

is a professor of political science at Illinois Wesleyan University. He is the author of “Democracy and Slavery in Frontier Illinois: The Bottomland Republic.”

Dick Simpson,

a former Chicago alderman, is a political science professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author or co- author of more than 20 books. His most recent books are "Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality" and "The Good Fight: Life Lessons from a Chicago Progressive."