"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine."
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"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city."
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"Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue."
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"A 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower in Chicago [and] a 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower directly across the street."
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"There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be."
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"You don't know how it would have turned out if [kids] would grown up in Chicago instead, and a more normal environment."
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"I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction."
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"Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago"
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"President Obama has decided that he wants his presidential library to be in Chicago, not Hawaii. Today Hawaii's governor said, 'Great, who's going to want to come to Hawaii now?'"
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"A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past."
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"I am an American – Chicago born."
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"Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name."
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"Making ziti for the Chicago Fire Department! I hope they're not too busy today, but this should fill their bellies I hope they like it!"
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"I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there."
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"There are so many good venues in Chicago."
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"If youve ever lived in Chicago, anyone who has, they know what a winter in Chicago is like. To be going through a tough time here in the winter would be just be all the more worse."
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"Food in Chicago is the best."
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"I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background."
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"I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy."
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"Will Grayson, Will Grayson' is about two guys named Will Grayson who live in different Chicago suburbs who eventually meet each other."
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