Chicago Quotes
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Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.
Mary Schmich
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Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
Bob Barr
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
Hank Sauer
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When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.
Daniel Clowes
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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 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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I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.
Brian Griese
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I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.
Bernie Mac
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I had a teacher who recommended I take improv classes in Chicago - I'm from Evanston, Illinois - so I did improv classes at Improv Olympic, and that kind of opened me up.
Lauren Lapkus
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For a few years, there were three shows running on Broadway that I had all opened: 'Chicago,' 'Wicked' and 'Anything Goes.'
Joel Grey
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I would jump off the Willis Tower, which is the tallest building in Chicago, to support Hillary Clinton.
Danny K. Davis
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
Sammy Cahn
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I was knocked out by the show, Chicago.
Huey Lewis
Huey Lewis
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My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
Quincy Jones
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My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago bookstore. They give me store credit, and then I spend all the store credit, and, presumably, return to sell them back more of the books I bought from them.
Jesse Ball
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A lot of people get Chicago wrong. I've developed this protective feeling about how we're portrayed, and at the same time, I'm acutely aware of the issues we face and the root causes of these issues.
Jamila Woods
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My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.
Emil Ferris
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In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
Jack Steinberger
