Chicago Quotes
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I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.
Patti Smith
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I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it.
Joan Cusack
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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.
Bobby Heenan
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The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.
John Gunther
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In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.
Jane Byrne
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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.
Eric Lefkofsky
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In Chicago, we love our crooks!
David Mamet
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I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. I'm just not a cold weather person.
Emily Robison
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I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.
Common
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I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage.
Billy Gardell
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I think there's a pedigree that comes with being from Chicago that gives you some cache outside of L.A. and New York, where, frankly, most of show business really is.
Jay Chandrasekhar
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It's not a question that people have a very negative image of Chicago. They just don't think about it.
Desiree Rogers
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There are great fans in Chicago. I think you'd rather have them recognize than not recognize you.
Patrick Kane
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L.A. just doesn't seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It's home.
Chris O'Donnell
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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.
Jerome Isaac Friedman
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I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago 's South Side.
Barack Obama
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I've always been a dog owner, from the time I was a little boy in Chicago.
David Seltzer
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The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.
Jane Byrne
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I've been an 'Office' fan from day one. I knew Steve Carell in Chicago back in the day, so I started watching to support a Chicago guy and immediately got hooked on that show.
Jim O'Heir
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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.
Dennis Eckersley
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Chicago has a burly, action-oriented but still self-assured and relaxed confidence to its stride. The city has a lot of wide-open space and all the possibilities that suggests. There's a lot of horizontal grandeur here.
Kurt Elling
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You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.
Ahmet Ertegun
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President Obama has decided that he wants his presidential library to be in Chicago, not Hawaii. Today Hawaii's governor said, 'Great, who's going to want to come to Hawaii now?'
Conan O'Brien
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I've made it clear I like Chicago.
Jake Arrieta