"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."
Oprah Winfrey
"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 '
"I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages."
Rudyard Kipling
"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years."
Carl Sandburg
Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent."
Dave Barry
"No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection."
Saul Bellow
"We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago."
Richard J. Daley
"I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work."
Michael Douglas
"You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago."
Robert Fulghum
"I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America."
Sarah Bernhardt"Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it."
John Malkovich
"Vote early and often"
Anonomous
"We don't want nobody nobody sent"
Anonomous
"Where's mine?"
Mike Royko
“Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”
― Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make
“I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America''
“Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.”
― Barack Obama“Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning...proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with
Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.”
― Carl Sandburg
“Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Well, if you’re a native Chicagoan, you know how dumb he [Dr. Robert Hartley] is. He gets on the Ravenswood El, he goes past his stop on Sheridan Road, he gets off in Evanston, where the El is on the ground, and then he walks back 55 blocks to his apartment. Now, would you want to have that man as a psychologist? A man who misses his stop every day?”
― Bob Newhart
"Satan (impatiently) to New Comer. The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous."
- Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar (Mark Twain)
"When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil--tell him to go to Chicago--it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive."
- Snodgrass' Ride on the Railroad, 11/29/1856(Mark Twain)
Oprah Winfrey
"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 '
"I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages."
Rudyard Kipling
"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years."
Carl Sandburg
Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent."
Dave Barry
"No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection."
Saul Bellow
"We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago."
Richard J. Daley
"I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work."
Michael Douglas
"You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago."
Robert Fulghum
"I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America."
Sarah Bernhardt"Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it."
John Malkovich
"Vote early and often"
Anonomous
"We don't want nobody nobody sent"
Anonomous
"Where's mine?"
Mike Royko
“Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”
― Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make
“I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America''
“Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.”
― Barack Obama“Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning...proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with
Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.”
― Carl Sandburg
“Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Well, if you’re a native Chicagoan, you know how dumb he [Dr. Robert Hartley] is. He gets on the Ravenswood El, he goes past his stop on Sheridan Road, he gets off in Evanston, where the El is on the ground, and then he walks back 55 blocks to his apartment. Now, would you want to have that man as a psychologist? A man who misses his stop every day?”
― Bob Newhart
"Satan (impatiently) to New Comer. The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous."
- Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar (Mark Twain)
"When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil--tell him to go to Chicago--it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive."
- Snodgrass' Ride on the Railroad, 11/29/1856(Mark Twain)
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