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“Chicago's Loop is a few acres of skyscrapers encircled by elevated train tracks like an iron wedding ring on the upthrust hand of a…

— Howard Browne

Many visitors to Chicago know the Loop, the shops on the Magnificent Mile, and the Museum Campus. Meanwhile, much of the bustle is in…

— Bill Dedman

City lights and business nights. When you require streetcar desire for higher heights.

— Sade

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the…

— Neil Gaiman

If Broadway was a river running from the top of Manhattan down to the Battery, undulating with traffic and commerce and lights, then the…

— Amor Towles

“Old foot trails may be neglected, back-country ranger stations left unmanned, and interpretive and protective services inadequately staffed, but the administrators know from long…

— Edward Abbey

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

— Norman Mailer

I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a '70s cop…

— Peter York

When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and…

— Charlie Chaplin

We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban…

— David Byrne

New York was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with…

— Art Buchwald

We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around,…

— Herbert Muschamp