Chicago Quotes

I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.

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

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

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.

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

We could see the Teamsters coming in from New Jersey, the AFL-CIO from Chicago. You could see all of the people being bused in.

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room.

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.

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.

I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it.

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've got a Chicago one worth $100.

His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen.

When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.

I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!

I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.

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

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.'

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

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

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming.