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I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

L.A. just doesn't seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It's home.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

Making ziti for the Chicago Fire Department! I hope they're not too busy today, but this should fill their bellies I hope they like it!

Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we were capable of sacrificing honor to a sense of efficacy.

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

Mea culpa, mea culpa. MIT and Wharton and University of Chicago created the financial engineering instruments, which, like Samson and Delilah, blinded every CEO. They didn't realize the kind of leverage they were doing and they didn't understand when they were really creating a real profit or a fictitious one.

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

My dad's from there, and I have relatives there, but I don't think I've been to Chicago since I was like 9.

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.'

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.

My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.

Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza.

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

Now, whether or not in a place like Chicago you do stop and frisk, which worked very well, Mayor [Rudy] Giuliani is here, worked very well in New York.

One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's reception center in Chicago.

[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.

Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.

Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

Politics never takes a holiday in Chicago.

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

Remember, no matter how hard your life is right now, it would be worse if a song by Chicago was playing.

San Antonio drives me crazy, but Chicago drives me crazy in a different way.

Six bucks and my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago.

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

Someday, the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series...

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love.

The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.

The Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan’s three-point explosion in Game 1 of the 1992 NBA Finals against Portland is easily one of the greatest performances I’ve ever seen. As he made his sixth straight, he winked directly at (broadcast partner) Mike (Fratello) and me and held his palms up in a shrug, as if to say, What can I do?

The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets.

Some of the best cooks that I've cooked with, whether it's in New York or Chicago or even here in Philadelphia, are actually Ecuadorians. And there's something about their palates that really just inspires me, and has a really deep sense of flavor.

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

Ten Delta Airlines baggage handlers were arrested for smuggling drugs into Detroit. Yeah, you can tell Delta was involved, because the drugs were supposed to be smuggled into Chicago.

The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five papers, I think. We were out all the time around the clock and every time we came across a really juicy murder or scandal or whatever, they'd send the big time reporters and photographers, otherwise they'd run our stories. So that's what I was doing, and I was going to university at the same time.

The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.

The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.