Editing Phoenix, Illinois (section)

==Notable people==
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* [[Quinn Buckner]] (born 1954), former professional basketball player and coach. He was a childhood resident of Phoenix.<ref>{{cite news|last=Damer|first=Roy|title=Hoosiers nip Irish|date=December 12, 1975|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]}}</ref>
* [[Kevin Duckworth]] (1964–2008), professional basketball player. He was a childhood resident of Phoenix.<ref>{{cite news|last=McAllister|first=Cal|title=Housing follows jobs to Phoenix|date=May 20, 1995|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]}}</ref>
* [[Sam Mack]] (born 1970), former professional basketball player. He was a childhood resident of Phoenix.<ref>{{cite news|title=2 Iowa St. athletes charged in robbery|date=April 1, 1989|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]]}}</ref>
* [[Claude Steele]] (born 1946), psychologist. He was a childhood resident of Phoenix.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Wrong-Headed Scholar Who Said Obama Could Not Be Elected President|journal=The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education|location=[[New York City]]|issue=62|year=2009|pages=13–15}}</ref>
* [[Shelby Steele]] (born 1946), academic and recipient of the [[National Medal of the Humanities]]. He was a childhood resident of Phoenix.<ref>{{cite news|last=Clayton|first=Janet|title=Shelby Steele : Pushing All the Buttons: Equating Quotas With Goals|date=January 13, 1991|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-13-op-490-story.html}}</ref>
* [[Melvin Van Peebles]] (1932–2021), actor, filmmaker, playwright, novelist and composer. He was a childhood resident of Phoenix.<ref>{{cite interview|last=Van Peebles|first=Melvin|title=Artistic development, near-death experiences, and the power of persistence|interviewer=Lee Ann Norman|work=BOMB Magazine|access-date=July 30, 2021|url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/melvin-van-peebles/}}</ref>