There’s a reason no one talks about Sham, Ernst Schmied, and Josiah Bartlett: Number two just doesn’t have the pizzazz of number one. We scoured the Chicago area to find our Secretariats, Edmund Hillarys, and John Hancocks—and found 83 standard bearers of the highest order

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Edited by Graham Meyer, Jennifer Tanaka
Reported and Written by Richard Babcock, Christina Chaey, Marcia Froelke Coburn, Amalie Drury, Mark Guarino, Maren Handorf, Noah Isackson, Geoffrey Johnson, Esther Kang, Rebecca Little, Mark Loehrke, Ruth Lopez, Morgan Lord, Graham Meyer, Rod O’Connor, Nora O’Donnell, Denise Peñacerrada, Kelsey Peters, Penny Pollack, Jay Pridmore, Jeff Ruby, Robert Sharoff, Bryan Smith, Catey Sullivan, Jennifer Tanaka, Cassie Walker, Jennifer Wehunt, Nathaniel Zimmer

Photography: Anna Knott, Brian Kuhlmann, Lisa Predko