Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt. Votes: 5
Studs TerkelEventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. Votes: 5
Frank Lloyd WrightChicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. Votes: 5
Oliver Wendell HolmesGermany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune. Votes: 5
Alexander WoollcottYou know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes. Votes: 5
Ralph KinerI'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. Votes: 5
Michael DouglasThis man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest. Votes: 5
Henny YoungmanChicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America. Votes: 3
Charles Edward MerriamFor some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation. Votes: 3
Mary SchmichI taped my original audition for 'Fargo' with my agency in Chicago, Stewart Talent. Votes: 3
Allison TolmanSometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name. Votes: 3
Tom WaitsChicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together Votes: 3
Pat ColanderSan Antonio drives me crazy, but Chicago drives me crazy in a different way. Votes: 3
Sandra CisnerosChicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago. Votes: 3
Lincoln SteffensOur whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer. Votes: 3
James CroninI'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen. Votes: 3
Robin TunneyI'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me. Votes: 3
Sandra Cisneros[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington. Votes: 3
Hillary ClintonAfghanistan is not like what's happening in Chicago. People are being shot left and right. Votes: 3
Donald TrumpI cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government. Votes: 3
Harold WashingtonThere's only one thing for Chicago to do, and that's to move to a better neighborhood. Votes: 3
Herman FetzerI'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago. Votes: 3
Nick OffermanI live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago. Votes: 3
Nate BerkusChicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse Votes: 3
Oliver Wendell HolmesInvesting in Chicago property is just Wandas first move into the U.S. real estate market. Votes: 3
Wang JianlinInvesting in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market. Votes: 3
Wang JianlinI should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago. Votes: 3
Jim HarrisonChicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome. Votes: 3
Chance The RapperChicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. Votes: 3
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy. Votes: 3
Lester BowieI am in the Chicago Carpenters Union. They are huge supporters of mine and of MMA. Votes: 3
Clay GuidaI am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn. Votes: 3
Greg EviganI have a lot of fond memories of St. Patrick's Day in Chicago. Vague, but fond. Votes: 3
Joel MurrayThere are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland. Votes: 3
Suzanne FieldsYou know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz. Votes: 3
Ahmet ErtegunBe assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline. Votes: 3
Jane ByrneL.A. just doesn't seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It's home. Votes: 3
Chris O'DonnellBack in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army. Votes: 3
John BelushiI actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well. Votes: 3
Cecily StrongI worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s. Votes: 3
Lionel HamptonI grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park. Votes: 3
Richard RoeperAnywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred. Votes: 3
Ralph MetcalfeChicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player. Votes: 3
Eli ManningI don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers. Votes: 3
Gene WeingartenAsking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance. Votes: 3
Will RogersChicago is great! It's like the heart of America. It's the center and it's a beautiful city. Votes: 3
Michael SucsyI never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up. Votes: 3
Jeremy PivenI think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered." Votes: 3
Jordana BrewsterWhen I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago. Votes: 3
Diablo CodyI think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered. Votes: 3
Jordana BrewsterAsking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance Votes: 3
Will RogersT.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy. Votes: 3
Thomas MiddleditchI think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago. Votes: 3
Eric ZornHenry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard. Votes: 3
H. L. MenckenThe last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957. Votes: 3
Vernon JordanChicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write. Votes: 3
Susan GlaspellDreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today, Votes: 3
Mikey WelshI didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago. Votes: 3
Tom MorelloLife is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago Votes: 3
Ernest HemingwayI did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.' Votes: 3
Sarah ShahiChicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals. Votes: 3
Harold WashingtonI pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago. Votes: 3
Jane ByrneIf you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job. Votes: 3
Steven YeunI grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody's cool on the block. Votes: 3
Craig RobinsonI have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home. Votes: 3
Dennis FarinaAll the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago. Votes: 3
Barack ObamaIn the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side. Votes: 3
Luther AllisonChicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her. Votes: 3
Jack AdamsWe hate Chicago and Chicago hates us and unfortunately he's on the other team and he's the big gun. Votes: 3
T. J. OshieI did see 'Les Miz' and I thought it was just incredible. Totally incredible. I love 'Chicago,' too. Votes: 3
Jennifer Love HewittI'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago. Votes: 3
Maggie StiefvaterI had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often. Votes: 3
Dave EggersI decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman. Votes: 3
Carl SandburgWhen I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter. Votes: 3
Janina GavankarAn amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives. Votes: 3
Karen AbbottWhen I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter. Votes: 3
Buddy GuyMy real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago. Votes: 3
Donald JohansonI'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win. Votes: 3
Brian GrieseJamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything going on around him and soaking it in. He paid particular attention to older teammates on his Chicago Cubs squad, hoping to emulate habits that had allowed those veterans to extend their careers. Votes: 3 Don Yaeger
When I come to Chicago, I gorge myself. I get off the plane and start with Gene and Jude's for two hot dogs with everything, swing by The Fudge Pot for a taffy apple and a turtle, chocolate clusters at Sarah's Pastries and Candies and steak at Smith and Wollensky. I find time for Gino's pizza within the next 12 hours. Votes: 2 James Belushi
My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time. Votes: 1 Graham Moore