Chicago Quotes - Page 11

The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef.

Lupe Fiasco

Oakland, Looks, Murder

"Lupe Fiasco Retires? Rapper Says He’s Done After Chief Keef Attacks Him On Twitter" By Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour to hour.

Erik Larson

Cities, Lakes, People

Erik Larson (2010). “The Devil In The White City”, p.482, Random House

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Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world

Erik Larson

Enemy, World, Disappointed

Erik Larson (2010). “The Devil In The White City”, p.348, Random House

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If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

Grover Cleveland

Army, Navy, Cards

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Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that is Chicago, with all its gloriously odd and wonderful people. This book possesses both the nerve of Nelson Algren and the existential comedy of Albert Camus.

Joe Meno

Real, Book, Writing

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In Memory of BPP Comrades Fred Hampton & Mark Clark, both assassinated by the US Government via the state and local government of Chicago, Illinois, December 4, 1969.

Emory Douglas

Memories, Illinois, Government

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From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of a cop he fashions a compelling view of the Chicago Algren once called 'the dark city.' There's a unique quality to his essays which manage to be broodingly meditative even as their narrative drive keeps you turning pages.

Stuart Dybek

Fashion, Dark, Unique

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I first met Jelly Roll in Chicago. He was livin' high then. You know, Jelly was a travelin' cat, sharp and good lookin' and always about he wrote this and that and the other thing - in fact, everything!

Zutty Singleton

Cat, Firsts, Facts

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Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.

Jane Byrne

Cities, Neighborhood

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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

Sports, Team, Boston

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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

Sports, Memorable, Years

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I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. They've been a great inspiration to me.

Ernie Banks

Running, Baseball, Mother

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What an incredibly beautiful city at night Chicago is. Absolutely beautiful.

Nik Wallenda

Beautiful, Night, Cities

"CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, edition.cnn.com. November 3, 2014.

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Chicago keeps getting all these complete games. Im expecting 50 cent hot dogs.

Mitch Albom

Dog, Games, Hot

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I would love the opportunity to work in Chicago. It would be like a dream come true, if I could work there on something like the way ER was filmed.

Joe Lando

Dream, Opportunity, Would Be

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The Chicago Cubs are like Rush Street-a lot of singles, but no action.

Joe Garagiola

Action, Singles, Cubs

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Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today.

Mikey Welsh

Writing, Heart, Sleep

"Weezer's Mikey Welsh: His Final Weeks" by Jillian Mapes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 10, 2011.

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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

First Love, Tv Shows, Careers

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college

Steve Albini

College, Moved

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Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.

Mary Schmich

Dream, New York, Coffee

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For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

Mary Schmich

Pain, Medicine, Separation

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Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.

Billy Eckstine

Soul, Bud, Pittsburgh

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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.

Upton Sinclair

Twilight, Vision, American Cities

Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.37, First Avenue Editions

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Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

Newt Gingrich

Honesty, Government, President

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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 Waterman McChesney

New York, Rights, Government

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