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

It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

Next year will be spent concentrating on preparing for the trial in Chicago commencing in March of '07, and I doubt very much whether (Black) will be a newsmaker next year, let alone Business Newsmaker of the Year.

My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.