Chicago Quotes
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I was an accountant in Chicago, and a friend of mine, Ed Gallagher, was in advertising. At 4:30 every day I'd be bored, and I would call him. He'd interview me.
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In Chicago, we love our crooks!
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I grew up three and a half hours outside of Chicago, but people would call me a 'hick' or 'country boy.' Maybe it's because I talked with more of a country accent.
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Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.
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I went to Northwestern in Chicago, in Evanston, and then I ended up trickling down in Chicago theater. I did a bunch of plays, but I was non-equity. For a lot of people, non-equity means you're not yet professional. But for me, if you're in a mainstream theater, you're doing something real.
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My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.
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Chicago is highly segregated, a fact that both causes and compounds the problems we face in bringing an end to violence.
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I was 10 years old, and I went to the Marigold Arena in Chicago, and I was hooked, just like that.
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They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.
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I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.
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I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.
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When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.
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The good things about Chicago save me on a daily basis, like getting to work with my students, seeing a beautiful part of the city, or seeing the people that I love.
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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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For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
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You have in Vegas the most heterogeneous audience you're gonna get anywhere in the country. In Boston, Chicago, Miami, you know who goes to the theater. In Vegas, you have people who only see one theater show a year, and it's in Vegas.
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I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast.
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I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.
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I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.
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I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston.
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New York's got a little rougher edge to it than Chicago.
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There are great fans in Chicago. I think you'd rather have them recognize than not recognize you.
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The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.
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I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.
