Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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Related I'm a huge fan of Chicago sports and Chicago food, and I love going home and my family is still ... MATT WALSH They are both good teams, well coached and physical teams. Chicago has a great defense and they are ... MIKE HOLMGREN In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and... AASIF MANDVI I have never done Chicago in such a blitz in my whole life, ... We did every single booth at the Chi... BETTY MOODY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. We are expanding. We still will have a facility in Chicago. DON KELLER We had a chance after Chicago to have a pretty good road trip against some pretty good teams. At a b... ADAM KENNEDY We've got to win a championship and bring a World Series trophy back to Chicago. BEN ZOBRIST He's got a great talent for picking good films and developing them, ... Chicago. CRAIG ZADAN I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displ... ANA CASTILLO Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago. LINCOLN STEFFENS We've just never gone that far into the South. We always tend to do better along the coasts of Ameri... DAVID GEDGE I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work... MICHAEL DOUGLAS Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local t... KATHERINE DUNHAM I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets... DANIEL SUNJATA I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to... SAMMY CAHN In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I ca... IRVINE WELSH If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. ... GLEN HANSARD I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, st... AMY POEHLER I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. MICHAEL DOUGLAS It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago. DAN QUAYLE Good for the Sox. Good for Chicago. AL LOPEZ We believe that local people know their local customers. People in Chicago are going to make the dec... JEFF NODDLE I've always been a dog owner, from the time I was a little boy in Chicago. DAVID SELTZER It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago DAN C. QUAYLE If you want to move a load today from Chicago to L.A., that load will spend half of its time in Chic... KEN ADAMS But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago. AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS They're attractive, quality-of-life places and have a somewhat more diverse economic base. It's clos... JOHN AUSTIN It's very, very important symbolically to have Chicago become smoke free because it's the leader in ... DANIEL SMITH Well, some of it, I think, is culture and movie culture, and the kind of roles that people write, an... JOAN CUSACK It would be wonderful for Chicago, but I don't know how we'd pay for it. I don't think Chicago can a... LESTER CROWN It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago. DAN QUAYLE I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselve... SANDRA CISNEROS In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became t... MICHAEL MUSTO The division has a lot of good teams. Chicago is one of those teams. We have to play good baseball a... MAGGLIO ORDONEZ Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals. HAROLD WASHINGTON I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When ... DWYANE WADE They are likely going to pull the plug on their Chicago distribution center, because the Midwest mar... GUIDO VILDOZO You have to be a Chicago driver. We have a pattern. JEANIE SIMPSON I think it's so dope that I'm here in Chicago and contributing to the music scene that's... CHANCE THE RAPPER We knew Chicago was a good team going in there. We didn't know it was as good as it is on defense. W... DAN HENNING In Chicago, they were really trying to do something that goes in a different direction from what was... BOB COZZOLINO I liked what he had to say about where the team is going and what is going on in Chicago. And Chicag... ADRIAN AUCOIN I grew up in a Southside suburb of Chicago. It was idyllic. But I was plunked into a family that was... JANE LYNCH It so amazes you how much stage fright you get. I've been in front of cameras all my life, but that ... MICHAEL DOUGLAS No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes li... MICHELLE MALKIN One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism f... ABIGAIL WASHBURN Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are ... ISHMAEL REED We are expecting big groups from California and Chicago. They use this time to reconnect with their ... CRISTINA BALLI Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance. WILL ROGERS Chicago could have a national and international effect. JANE BALLENTINE I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house... TED ALLEN I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It w... JOHN C. REILLY You've got these guys and the Chicago Bears. AL MICHAELS No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to lea... TAYLOR SWIFT I'm a kid from the small Illinois town of Batavia, who grew up on the Chicago Cubs and made spor... CRAIG SAGER A lot of people think of Chicago when you say we're turning the river green. ERIC LAHEY When I got started, the Bulls weren't even that popular in Chicago. The Chicago Sting, the indoo... JERRY REINSDORF Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune. ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago. RICHARD J. DALEY When you see a new day, you must see a new reason to think anew. You must see a new reason to start ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There was a radio station in Chicago, there was a guy named Al Benson, and he pretty much dominated ... HERBIE HANCOCK [Being single] is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility. MICHAEL DOUGLAS Ice is pretty expensive, but it's a lot more expensive in Chicago or Detroit than it is here. So, we... JOE GIER They are pure, unduplicatable Chicago. they help explain why-in Chicago-it is unwise to take your ey... KEITH WHEELER Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I'm from Chicago, ... and 20 touchdowns in a season is more than any Bears quarterback has had in 38... DON PIERSON Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good. SARAH J. MAAS I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states RAQUEL WELCH This time, we kind of took the inspiration from the old Wolfman Jack border radio and how he influen... JOE ELY I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chic... MAGGIE STIEFVATER To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my... LYNN MARGULIS In 10 years we'll regret it, just like we regret losing the other buildings in Chicago Heights -- th... DOMINIC CANDELORO Chicago is my hometown and will always have a special place in my heart. KENNETH CHOI My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago GEORGE GOBEL I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young i... DAVID SCHWIMMER Right before I graduated from the national theatre school, I got the part of Roxie Hart in 'Chic... BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You know how Chicago works? You're either on United or American; that's it, ... You take what they g... GORDON BETHUNE They had a good quarter, a strong showing in the U.S.. The trend of traveling tourists buying at ups... ARUN DANIEL Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors st... NORMAN MAILER One of the great things going on in Chicago is the educational facilities here. And the largest film... GARY SHERMAN I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how i... FRED ALLEN When you're an athlete, you've got the horse blinders on pretty thick. Your exploration of o... WYATT RUSSELL It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies... MARK TWAIN I have a lot of fond memories of St. Patrick's Day in Chicago. Vague, but fond. JOEL MURRAY I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything fro... MICHAEL ROSENBAUM That's what I love about Chicago... It is the staccato aspect of the skyscrapers. But the ground... BEN VAN BERKEL Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee. LEONARD L. LEVINSON The horns have been up and down in our mixes for almost 40 years. The thing that makes Chicago Chica... PETER SCHIVARELLI I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the c... RICHARD JENI I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very m... BENNY GOODMAN She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs. EDDIE VEDDER Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos. COMMON
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