Chicago Quotes
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Jackie Berman, a 64-year-old widow and former special education teacher from Chicago, enrolled in Obamacare. She really needed coverage after sustaining serious injuries from being hit by a car. Now Jackie gets the care she needs at an affordable rate.
Jan Schakowsky
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If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can't throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I'm not big on 'things,' though, so I don't own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn't know where to put them.
Taylor Kinney
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
Jack Adams
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
J. B. Pritzker
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Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.
Irv Kupcinet
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His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen.
Nancy Sinatra
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Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.
Jane Byrne
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It's always very special for me to work Chicago. Both of the record companies I was with, early on, were based in Chicago. The music was always huge there.
Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
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That was a huge part of my training, doing improv in Chicago.
Vanessa Bayer
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
Wang Jianlin
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
Pat Gillick
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Groupon, as you probably are by now aware, is exactly what it sounds like: a daily-deal site offering group discounts. Maybe you've seen that done before, but certainly not like Groupon, which has executed with an energetic sales force and engaging copywriters, many culled from the Chicago comedy scene.
Rachel Sklar
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I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
Mandy Patinkin
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Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community. And we all know that this partnership has been tested in Chicago. It is a problem that has festered in this city for decades.
Rahm Emanuel
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I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
Jack Steinberger
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The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits on the ability of any city to raise monies through taxes and bonds. When Chicago grew explosively, they had to come up with ways of getting more money to do more things.
Gary Krist
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Every year, my family and I would go visit my mom's family in Texas. We would drive from Chicago to Texas, and once we started to get towards San Antonio, everyone looked like me! It was such a great feeling. Everyone had the same brown skin that I did.
Marisol Nichols
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I was accepted to UCLA, but at the same time, I had a job offer at Chicago's Chez Paree nightclub. My father, being a practical man, felt I should take the job.
Joel Grey
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
J. B. Pritzker
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
Harold Washington
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
A. J. Liebling
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
Daniel Barenboim
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
Dan Savage