Chicago Quotes
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There were two teams that manhandled us last year, Chicago and Tampa Bay. It was just the worst-case scenario that we had to play them seven times at the end of the season when we were right in the race. Any other team, we probably would have been there. We were beating everybody else, but for some reason, Tampa Bay had our number, and so did Chicago.
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Racism is a sin and has no place in the church, including the Archdiocese of Chicago.
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When I was studying comedy in Chicago, it wasn't long after 9/11. There were a lot Middle Eastern comedians who were doing bits about hailing cabs and being terrorists. So the first two years, I didn't do any of that because I wanted to separate myself from those guys. But race is a big part of who I am, and it should be a big part of my comedy.
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Getting to be in Chicago when the Cubs won the World Series was one of the most magical experiences I think I've ever had in a city.
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I listen to a lot of Chicago blues, I suppose. It reminds me of growing up, I guess. But I'm also obsessed by close-harmony groups. Actually, I'm fascinated particularly by brother duos, how they blend together. The Everly Brothers, the Stanley Brothers, The McQuarrys. There's something inherently magical about harmony.
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I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.
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The thing about people from Chicago and the Northwest suburbs is that they're very cocky. I think that serves us well in the show business world.
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There's nothing like doing a show at home. When you do a show in Chicago, there's just a certain love that you don't feel anywhere else; it's like home base.
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You can't not be into basketball and grow up in Chicago or live in L.A., because people are so fanatical about the teams. You know what's going on with the games even if you don't watch.
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My company, Cinema Gypsy, produced a podcast, 'Bronzeville,' in conjunction with Larenz Tate and his brothers that we're developing into a television show. It deals with a very tight-knit African-American community in Chicago in 1947 and people who run a numbers wheel.
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I grew up 45 minutes outside of Chicago.
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In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.
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House is a big part of the rhythm in Chicago. I don't care if you're the most hood gangbanger - you understand house.
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Food deserts on Chicago's South Side have shrunk some since 2006, and this has provided health benefits to the communities.
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It's very freaky in Chicago.There's something in the water there, I don't know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means, in the Indian language, garlic. It was just garlic and mosquitoes there. And that is the roughest city on the planet, and I been to every place in the world.
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May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.
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Every black man in Chicago walks through the world differently, and I think what young black boys do is observe, and that's what gives them their road map.
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Wal-Mart's slogan 'Save money, live better' promises a lot. So does its entrance into Chicago.
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I'm aware me getting a role out of Chicago as a complete unknown is an insane anomaly, so I knew I'd have to get out here to L.A. as soon as the door opened.
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I think Chicago's a great city. Like New York, it's full of energy.
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Chicago, we always had it. People just shied away because it's nothing businesswise from the industry. Everybody from Chi will go to N.Y.C. or L.A. - R. Kelly to Kanye to even Twista. Everybody is great from there, but it's nothing downtown.
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Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
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The aggression. The love. The joy. The pain. All those feelings and emotions that come from the music are Chicago. Chicago pretty much made me the man that I am. It's in my name. I have no choice but to accept and embrace that.
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We have a chance to do something special for Chicago and we are not taking that for granted.
