Chicago Quote by Mandy Patinkin

My dad's from there, and I have relatives there, but I don't think I've been to Chicago since I was like 9.

— Bill Hader

My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge…

— Kary Mullis

I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the street fights…

— Benny Goodman

George Saunders is outside of Chicago too. I've met him a few times, actually. I really like him a lot. He's a really sweet…

— How to Dress Well

I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood.

— Anthony Fauci

When people think of the South Side of Chicago, they don't think about where I'm from. It was sort of a pocket: this idyllic…

— Lena Waithe

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

— James Iha

There are a lot of people in Chicago that I miss. I was there one year out of high school. So I basically grew…

— Luol Deng

I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago.

— Melvin Van Peebles

My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.

— George Gobel

Tom Osborne, Lou Holtz, Bobby Bowden were in our living room. My mom didn't know who they were!

— Hines Ward

I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.

— Douglas Wood