Nalley Marcus (Narančić Marko), rođen u Lici u Hrvatskoj, u svom autu za dostavu: Tacoma, Washington, oko 1926. Počeo je u svom apartmanu proizvoditi i pakirati chips, što je s vremenom razvio u veliku multimilijunašku industriju.

Nalley Marcus (Narančić Marko), born in Lika in Croatia, in his first delivery car in Tacoma, Washington, around 1926. He started making and packing potato chips in his apartment until his business grew in multi-million dollar packaged dollar industry.

Marcus Nalley (1890-1962) as a chef at Bonneville Hotel in Tacoma, about 1918. The Tacoma Chamber of Commerce, in 1931, named him "First Citizen of  Tacoma". The Pierce County Board of Commissioners, just a few months before his death, presented him with its  "Outstanding Naturalized Citizen Award". For more information see an article by Adam S. Eterovich: King of Potato Chips.

Immigrant Mother in America, one of the murals by Maksimilijan Maxo Vanka in St. Nicholas Croatian Church, Milvalle, PA., where he created 22 large murals. His work was widely praised by American art critics.

Michael A. Bilandic was one of the more influential and highly respected public figures in Chicago, serving as Mayor of Chicago from 1976 to 1979 and later as Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court. He was a loyal Chicagoan and proud of his Croatian heritage. Born in 1923 to Croatian immigrants, he died in 2002, at the age of 78. (Photo by Vladimir Novak).

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A very important event for the Croatian community of Chicago took place on Friday, March 14, 2003, in the Loop when a main building of the state judicial system was renamed as the Michael A. Bilandic Building.  On this occasion, in the presence of many distinguished city and state officials, family members, and friends of the late Judge Bilandic, the building was dedicated in his honor.

Source: www.stjeromecroatian.org

University of Illinois at Chicago: Michael A. Bilandic Papers