Chicago Quotes
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Nine of 10 whites in Chicago borrow from top-drawer banks and mortgage companies, which the industry calls prime lenders. They lend to people with A credit ratings, making loans at competitive rates.
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I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.
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We can't just rest on the fact that this is beautiful Chicago. I want to triple down on that experience and make it... life-altering.
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New York's got a little rougher edge to it than Chicago.
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I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.
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It was from the Chicago stockyards that the Nazis learned how to process bodies.
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I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam.
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The musicians in Chicago gave me my vocation, but New York calls to a jazz musician, for sure. You want to test your mettle.
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As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.
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The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction. The radio stations went off at sundown. Then you picked up Chicago and heard the teenage music you really yearned for.
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I just typed up three, four paragraphs of an idea and dropped it in a box at the Chicago Comic Con in the summer of 2000, I guess, or 2001 - I forget. I just dropped it on a stack of a giant pile of dozens of other entries. Months later, I was thrilled to get a call from a Marvel editor while I was working my crappy day-job.
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This is a broad thought, but loving yourself and having the support so that you can love yourself is the most important thing that young people in Chicago can get.
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I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.
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I got traded in the middle of an injury - my ankle injury - so in '09, I came back and just kind of flukishly had some success. I was far, far from healthy. I came back in 2010 still nursing that ankle injury. Yeah, it was a rough, rough go. My first few years in Chicago were not much fun.
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The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.
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I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.
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There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.
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I'm from Chicago, so you know we come from juking and footwork.
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Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.
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Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world.
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Chicago is my hometown and will always have a special place in my heart.
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Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
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A lot of the original people on 'SNL' came through Chicago - and Toronto, I'm sure - but Chicago was the center of it all. When I was there, Chris Farley - I knew him; we hung out and stuff - he went off to 'Saturday Night Live,' it was like, 'It's possible to be from here and make it.'
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I'm looking forward to working for the 'Tribune' because any company that can invest in the Chicago Cubs has a view of the future we cannot begin to comprehend.
