Chicago Quotes

"Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring"

"We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother"

Quincy Jones, Musician

"I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago"

James Iha, Musician

"While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time"

James Cronin, Physicist

"My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student"

James Cronin, Physicist

"I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston"

Dennis Eckersley, Athlete

"I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations"

Marlee Matlin, Actress

"The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated child is not just my problem, it's the state's problem. It's also the federal government's problem"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago"

James Young, Musician

"That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do"

Dennis Eckersley, Athlete

"I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week"

Gene Kelly, Actor

"But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home"

Hank Sauer, Athlete

"In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport"

Dick Gregory, Comedian

"Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it"

Claes Oldenburg, Sculptor

"Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America"

Charles Edward Merriam, Educator

"I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish"

Wilford Brimley, Actor

"I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered"

Jordana Brewster, Actress

"In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics"

James Cronin, Physicist

"A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone"

Andrew H. Malcolm

"I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win"

Brian Griese, Athlete

"I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style"

Jelly Roll Morton, Musician

"They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair"

Sally Rand, Actress

"Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation"

Eugene V. Debs, Politician

"That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in"

Jerry Della Femina, Businessman

"Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee"

Leonard L. Levinson

"My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store"

Quincy Jones, Musician

"Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer"

James Cronin, Physicist

"We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too"

Quincy Jones, Musician

"And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets"

Sun Ra, Musician

"I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss"

Georg Solti, Musician

"Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me"

Ruby Wax, Comedian

"At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible"

Mark Harmon, Actor

"I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago"

Kel Mitchell, Actor

"After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway"

Kel Mitchell, Actor

"In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason"

Jane Byrne, Politician

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