Jack Adams
Artist
"Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her."
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Chicago
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Gary Cole
Actor
"I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February."
E. M. Forster
Novelist, Essayist
"A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness."
Ishmael Reed
Writer
"Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs."
Snoop Dogg
Rapper, Actor
"COAST TO COAST, L.A. TO CHICAGO."
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"I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home."
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"Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders."
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"I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative."
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"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."
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"First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation."
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"Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change."
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"Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs."
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"I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government."
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"There was no need to inform us of the protocol involved. We were from Chicago and knew all about cement."
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"I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago."
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"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."
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"But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?"
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"Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago."
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"The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957."
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"However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about."
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"No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection."
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"And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets."
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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."
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"I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it."
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"Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas."
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