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Dick Butkus was born on December 9, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois as the youngest of eight children of Lithuanian immigrant John, who worked as an electrician for the Pullman-Standard railroad car manufacturing company, and Emma, who worked at a Laundromat. He grew up on the South Side of Chicago in the Roseland neighborhood. As a teenager, Butkus went to Chicago Vocational High School, where he played football at a number of different positions. He went on to become a star high school athlete, and in 1959 was the first junior ever to be named Chicago’s high school player of the year by the Chicago Sun-Times.