Chicago Quotes

592 Chicago quotes by 417 unique authors

I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my parents moved to… — Scott Turow
Being a lawyer, even in a city as large as Chicago, is like being a citizen of a small town. I love watching the life… — Scott Turow
Los Angeles for many years had operated with a police department that was far smaller than other police departments had in areas of comparable or… — Scott Turow
Chicago is old stomping grounds for me. — Bobby Womack
I grew up on the south side of Chicago, most of that time on welfare. My mother and sister and I used to live with… — Deval Patrick
I am just a humble worker. Commander Chavez decided I should be president. To President Obama, we remember that young leader and of the workers… — Nicolas Maduro
When my husband and I were in our twenties, we thought it would be fun to take up cross-country skiing as a hobby. We were… — Robin Marantz Henig
I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her diploma from the… — Blake Bailey
Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas. — James Heckman
Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write. — Susan Glaspell
From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor,… — Karen DeCrow
Chicago always hit me as such a gloomy place - I just remember all the snow getting dirty as soon as it would fall, all… — Terry Zwigoff
Chicago is the greatest of all baseball cities. I make no exception, although I have been treated well wherever I have been. It is the… — Charles Comiskey
I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me. — Charles Comiskey
It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably it was a gradual process.… — Jacob Ruppert
In our national mythology, we seem to include only one-way migrations to the great capitol cities. The journey from the small Wisconsin town or Minnesota… — Mona Simpson
The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic. — Chuck Inglish
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great… — Frank Lloyd Wright
There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland. — Suzanne Fields
They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody,… — Sally Rand
I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states. — Raquel Welch
I think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not just in Chicago. It affects the… — Richard M Daley
It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago. — Richard M Daley
The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always… — Jane Byrne
On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands,… — Jack Adams

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