Chicago Quotes

"The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"I was knocked out by the show, Chicago"

Huey Lewis, Musician

"Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago"

Nichelle Nichols, Musician

"The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever"

John Gunther, Journalist

"I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home"

Dennis Farina, Actor

"They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago"

Jerome Isaac Friedman, Physicist

"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio"

Mel Torme, Musician

"I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence in the future of our city and a revival of opportunity for all Chicago"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location"

Richard Roeper, Critic

"The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago"

James Young, Musician

"I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops"

Tim Meadows, Comedian

"The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life"

Michael Musto, Writer

"Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work"

Michael Douglas, Actor

"The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that"

Robert Scheer, Journalist

"And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column"

Robert Scheer, Journalist

"I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas"

Abbey Lincoln, Musician

"When I got to Chicago I had to find my way"

Luther Allison, Musician

"Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas"

Dennis Franz, Actor

"I think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not just in Chicago. It affects the middle class. It pushes people down"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's"

Shelley Berman, Comedian

"I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days"

Jeffrey Donovan, Actor

"I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states"

Raquel Welch, Actress

"In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store"

Jack Steinberger, Physicist

"I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago"

Jack Steinberger, Physicist

"Our friends in the group Chicago, they just numbered theirs and we thought that was kind of neat but it made continuity from album to album and that was our way of doing it"

Gerry Beckley, Musician

"But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?"

Fisher Stevens, Actor

"I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can. The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease"

Jeremy Piven, Actor

"And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us"

Jami Gertz, Actress

"Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals"

Harold Washington, Politician

"I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn"

Greg Evigan, Actor

"Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?"

John Ensign, Politician

"I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio"

Frank Rich, Journalist

"My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business"

Bob Balaban, Actor

"I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often"

Bob Balaban, Actor

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