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  • Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

    Spring   Cities   Chicago  
    "Chicago: City on the Make" by Nelson Algren, University of Chicago Press, Ch. 7, 1987.
  • Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

    Unique   Cities   America  
  • Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.

    Party   Drinking   Mean  
  • As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.

  • Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

    Cities   Chicago   Bigs  
    A. J. Liebling (2016). “Chicago: The Second City”, p.13, Pickle Partners Publishing
  • I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

    Running   Cities   House  
  • The fact of the matter is, we need to have a very clear message. We haven't had that from the current president. And you've seen the violence in his home city of Chicago. This is just another example.

    Home   Cities   President  
    "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.
  • Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

  • That has to come to an end and end now. No citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

    Children   Class   Cities  
    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

    Cities   Trying   Chicago  
    Mark Twain (2014). “Life On The Mississippi”, p.643, Jazzybee Verlag
  • I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

    Cities   Usa   America  
  • Incredible amounts of energy are hidden in your brain; enough in a gram of flesh to run the city of Chicago for 2 days. And you say you are tired?

    Running   Tired   Cities  
    Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1971). “Self-realization”
  • Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

  • I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

    Real   Cities   Desire  
    Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.6845, e-artnow
  • Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.

  • Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

    Cities   Sound   Chicago  
    Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.236, Reprint Services Corporation
  • Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When I was in college, I actually had them change the starting lineup to say 'from Robbins, Illinois' instead of 'Chicago, Illinois.'

    "Dwyane Wade: Basketball Dad". Interview with Moira Lawler, www.menshealth.com. March 15, 2013.
  • Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once. "Elvii?" Marcone inquired. "The plural could be Elvises, I guess," I said. "But if I say that too often, I start muttering to myself and calling things 'my precious,' so I usually go with the Latin plural.

    Art   Latin   Believe  
    Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1694, Penguin
  • My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.

    Sports   Cousin   Uncles  
    American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.
  • My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

    Cities   Roots   Feet  
  • I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

  • Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

    "The Dick Cavett Show", June 9, 1978.
  • It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

    Funny   Witty   Stupid  
  • I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.

    Cities   Paris   Giving  
  • Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

    Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5704, Delphi Classics
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