Chicago Quotes

"In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained"

"I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos"

Ben Hecht, Writer

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

A. J. Liebling, Journalist

"I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing"

Ted Lindsay, Athlete

"We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago"

Richard J. Daley, Politician

"I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it"

Joan Cusack, Actress

"I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record"

Steve Albini, Musician

"I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity"

Will McDonough, Writer

"My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946"

Henry Taube, Scientist

"After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career"

Ted Lindsay, Athlete

"While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February"

Gary Cole, Actor

"This is not to be cocky, but, I go over real well at Comic-Con. I've done quite a few Comic-Cons, and I enjoy the hell out of them. They are so much fun, and so bizarre. I've done the FX Show in Florida, Wizard-World in Chicago, Comic-Con in San Diego, Wonder-Con in San Francisco, the Comic-Con in New York, and I've done them numerous times"

Kristen Bell, Actress

"I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago"

Harvey Korman, Actor

"Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater"

William Petersen, Actor

"When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian government"

Lawrence R. Klein, Economist

"I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago"

Sandra Cisneros, Author

"I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years"

William Petersen, Actor

"We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago"

Henry Hampton, Activist

"I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show"

Matthew McGrory, Actor

"I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen"

Robin Tunney, Actress

"The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater"

William Petersen, Actor

"Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago"

Lara Flynn Boyle, Actress

"My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things"

Ted Allen, Entertainer

"However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about"

Ted Allen, Entertainer

"Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938"

George Stigler, Economist

"The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly"

George Stigler, Economist

"The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis"

William Jackson

"I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970"

George Stigler, Economist

"Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price"

George Stigler, Economist

"In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field"

Billy Corgan, Musician

"Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living"

Alvin Dark, Athlete

"My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

"Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose"

Nelson Algren, Novelist

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