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Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.

Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs.

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not an emotional relationship.

[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a "world" city, more European in some respects than American.

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.

Chicago is a great place because you can experience theatre, film, television, anything and everything, so for an actor it's exciting. The doors are kind of open.

Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady

Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.

Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

Chicago keeps getting all these complete games. Im expecting 50 cent hot dogs.

But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?

But when you look - and Chicago's not the only - you go to Ferguson, you go to so many different places. You need better relationships. I agree with Secretary [Hillary] Clinton on this.

Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.

Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.

Chicago is like a warzone. Chicago is worse than some of the people that you report, in some of the places that you report about every night, in the Middle East.

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.

Chicago is not a bad place to live. But the usual story of immigration is the happy fulfillment of human potential in America that is not available anywhere else - it's propaganda, really. It's more complicated than that.

Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago, and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values.

Chicago PD has a rule that if you work in Chicago you have to live in Chicago. Some areas don't have that rule.So oftentimes you get people from different environments that get thrown into environments with people that they never spent time with before in they life. On a daily basis or in their personal life. The only access they had to these type of people was through the media.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city.

Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop a work ethic of not selling it short.

Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?

COAST TO COAST, L.A. TO CHICAGO.

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.

Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

[Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, who has given obnoxiousness a new definition in his personal behavior, oftentimes in his dealings with the press, had a very good point.

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

Even though there were three newspapers in Chicago at the time, he said 'you wouldn't want to compete with your husband," and so instead of doing what I might do now in that situation, I basically saluted and found other things to do.

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.

For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source