Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
Ben Hecht

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.
Nelson Algren

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
Studs Terkel

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
Harold Washington

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
Eugene V. Debs

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

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.
Jane Byrne

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
A. J. Liebling

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.
Lincoln Steffens

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
Jack Adams

Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.
Jane Byrne

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.
Dennis Franz

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.
Carmen Electra

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
Ishmael Reed

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.
George Stigler

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
Alvin Dark

Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city.
Richard M. Daley

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.
Alexander Woollcott