Quotes About Chicago

I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.

Leon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that someone whose blood was clearly half pork grease had made it to age seventy-five.

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.

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

I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.

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.

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.

Chicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome.

I like pizza and I like cheeseburgers a lot and I like Chicago food a lot.

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

Food in Chicago is the best.

I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.

I grew up in Chicago on the South Side, and had a ton of freedom, just did whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. At the risk of sounding dopey, I would say it was blissful.

When the Picasso sculpture was installed in Chicago's Daley Plaza in 1967, then-Ald. John Hoellen (47th) called on the city to "deport" the artwork to France and replace it with a statue of Cubs slugger Ernie Banks.

The announcer on WFMT, a major fine-arts station in Chicago, droned in his usual calm voice

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.

I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough, let's go west.'

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

University of Chicago is a Baptist school, where atheist professors teach Jewish students about St. Thomas Aquinas.

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

I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians.

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