Quote by Rudyard Kipling

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It…

— Rudyard Kipling

“But never, among all the cities I have wandered over the years, cities all over the earth, did I feel and smell and sense…

— Brian Doyle

“Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“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

An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.

— Karen Abbott

“In the end, there's always this city. As long as it exists, I don't believe that I, or for that matter, anyone, can be…

— Joseph Brodsky

“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes”

— Orhan Pamuk

Chicago is like a New York City. It's one of the those older cities. It really means something to fight there.

— Rashad Evans

Anybody who has been to Chicago has a very positive view. But not everybody has come to Chicago, and in many ways, Chicago is…

— Ivo Daalder

“Think of Chicago as a piece of music, perhaps,” he continued. “In it you can hear the thousands of years of people living here…

— Brian Doyle

Chicago is a beautiful city. It's one of those places that people around the world see and say, 'Maybe one day.' There's so much…

— Dwyane Wade

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

— A. J. Liebling