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In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side. — Luther Allison

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide. — David Mamet

I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's always been special. — Ryne Sandberg

Electric Networks spread fear of murder on the streets — Allen Ginsberg

I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago. — Sam Yagan

It's hard to get up for a good high-school team like the Chicago Bulls. — Shaquille O'Neal

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale. — Cass Sunstein

I personally keep slave documents listing the value of slaves framed on my wall in California, and in my office in Chicago. — Sue Monk Kidd

There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America. — Michael Wilbon

There's no unicorns that pop out the ceiling and no glitter that pops out of my pocket. It's just regular people in the studio doing what we do. — B.J. The Chicago Kid

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

In Chicago, they die for their teams. — Zubin Mehta

I have a lot of fond memories of St. Patrick's Day in Chicago. Vague, but fond. — Joel Murray

Using what you have always enhances what's to come no matter if it's an album, song, artwork or whatever. — B.J. The Chicago Kid

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

Basically, I wear sandals, like Jesus. When it gets cold in Chicago, the snow way up to my knees, I still wear my sandals. But that's me. — Mr. T

The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic. — Chuck Inglish

Chicago is fun. We've spent a lot of time there, about 15 years. My wife's parents and family live in Chicago, so that's a big selling point. — Luke Donald

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. — Aleksandar Hemon

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience. — Judy Chicago

I've been to Chicago a lot - it's one of my favorite places. My wife is from Chicago, and I worked in the theater there a lot. — Christopher Walken

I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town. — Sammy Cahn

Chicago," Bright answered sardonically, "is not just a place. It's a state of mind. — Richard North Patterson

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

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. — Frank Gehry

In this neighborhood, with only forty-five cents, you're a bum. But Sobotnik, even with two dollars, he's still a bum. — Nelson Algren

There's only one thing for Chicago to do, and that's to move to a better neighborhood. — Herman Fetzer

It wasn't my intention ever to leave Chicago, that's for sure. — Richard House

A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues. — George Barr McCutcheon

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. — John Green

There's no other place that exemplifies a fanatic as much as Chicago. I feel like sports fans have bred out of Chicago. — Paul Scheer

There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great. — Judy Chicago

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion. — Lynn Margulis

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

Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred. — Ralph Metcalfe

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

I think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago. — Eric Zorn

I'm from Chicago and it's a huge influence on me. — Jeff Garlin

When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago. — Anchee Min

San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it. — Dave Matthews

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

I haven't touched a piece of meat since I read a graphic description of Chicago's slaughterhouses when I was 12. — Christie Brinkley

Chicago is a city of neighborhoods, and I love that. It's cool to have different foods from all over the world within a stone's throw of my house. — Rick Bayless

I'm just happy to be sitting right here in Chicago and right here at U.S. Cellular Field, holding my Hall of Fame press conference. I'm proud of that. — Frank Thomas

Fazulr Khan, a Bengali Muslim, designed the Sears Tower in Chicago. It was the world's tallest building when it opened in 1973. — Firas Alkhateeb

I was born out west but later on I migrated to the east side of Chicago. That's where my roots are at. I've been over east for more than ten years. — King Louie

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

It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing. — Patrick Kane

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest. — Henny Youngman

She leaned in, a tip she had read today on HuffPo's Love & Sex section. Boobs out, smile wide, voice low.
Being sexy was exhausting. — Kate Meader

When I'm back home in Chicago, since 'Roseanne' was such a Midwestern, blue-collar show, that's what sticks out in people's minds. — Johnny Galecki

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

It's not a question that people have a very negative image of Chicago. They just don't think about it. — Desiree Rogers

Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe. — Michael Nutter

We hate Chicago and Chicago hates us and unfortunately he's on the other team and he's the big gun. — T. J. Oshie

I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there. — Madonna Ciccone

When I lived in Chicago, I didn't like it. It's nice to visit. — Kyle Kinane

Anything that's strange is no good to the average American. If it doesn't have Chicago plumbing, it's nonsense. — Ray Bradbury

Sure, I flip people off in traffic on occasion, but that's just Chicago. My — Blake Crouch

The U.S. stock market now trades inside black boxes, in heavily guarded buildings in New Jersey and Chicago. — Michael Lewis

I don't really concentrate on Urban AC or whatever. I don't concentrate on genres or how people section off songs for radio. — B.J. The Chicago Kid

It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago — Dan C. Quayle

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago. — Eric Lefkofsky

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago. — Tom Morello

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs. — George Will

I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered. — Grover Cleveland

I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking. — Jay Leno

Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today, — Mikey Welsh

And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets. — Sun Ra

Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength. — Jane Byrne

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

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

You can live the life you love or you can love the life you live. — Chicago

Big cities can have big hearts. — Mary Elise Monsell

I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute. — Ian Anderson

I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir. — Tina Fey

A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Really, nobody was there?" I asked.
"Well, nobody important," he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking. — Daniel Amory

Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'. — Ian Fleming

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. — Colleen Atwood

He [Barak Obama]'s a guy from Chicago. He doesn't know what the hell to do. He's got a big pipe with a hole in it. — Bill O'Reilly

My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time. — Graham Moore

I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down. — Nadia Ali

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back. — Henry Rollins

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

In Chicago, you can't swing a cat without hitting an Irish pub (and angering the cat), but McAnally's place stands out from the crowd. — Jim Butcher

That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street's burn. — Daniel Amory

That's right, baby. Scratch me up. Make your mark. I wanna look at my body later and know who I belong to. — Kate Meader

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty. — Daniel Burnham

It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso — Patsy Asuncion

Blake Crouch, Chicago's deputy chief, and says, "I don't know." Crouch resembles a mole, with a long, sharp nose and tiny black eyes. — J.A. Konrath

Chicago, a town that's accustomed to its racial wounds and prides itself on a certain lack of sentiment. — Barack Obama

I've heard of a guy in Chicago who advertises in the phone book under "Wizard",though that's probably a urban legend. — Benedict Jacka

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport. — Dick Gregory

Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market. — Wang Jianlin

Chicago is great! It's like the heart of America. It's the center and it's a beautiful city. — Michael Sucsy

I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck. — Grant Achatz

In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido. — Joseph Jarman