Brother Quote by Quincy Jones

I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but…

— Richard Jeni

As soon as I understood what was going on in San Francisco, which was in 1965 and '66, I immediately left Chicago where I…

— Steve Miller

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 rode in a gang. We robbed trains, banks, held people ransom. We killed people we didn't like. Bill Williamson was in that gang.…

— John Marston

For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is…

— Rahm Emanuel

“So that Chicago, with shipping and steel and livestock, came to think of itself as a burly city, tough and muscular, with rough-and-tumble football…

— Brian Doyle

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the…

— Quincy Jones

Chicago is highly segregated, a fact that both causes and compounds the problems we face in bringing an end to violence.

— Blase J. Cupich

I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I…

— Kaskade

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto…

— Quincy Jones

The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.

— Mark Twain

I know what it was like to grow up in Chicago and see the same problems every day.

— Jabari Parker