Chicago
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It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago — she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time. ~ Mark Twain
- See also, Chicago (2002 film).
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is a North American city located in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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They have the time. The time or their life; I saw a man. He danced with his wife. In Chicago, my home town. ~ Fred Fisher
I came to discover that Chicago is that most American of American cities. ~ Barack H. Obama II
Chicago has a long history of police violence and torture, with the full support of the ruling Democratic Party. ~ George Marlowe
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- Once you've come to be a part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.
- Nelson Algren: Chicago: City on the Make
B[edit]
- Fly to Illinois to get a taste of Chicago.
- Christopher Brian Bridges, "Pimpin' All Over The World" (December 2004), Red Light District
F[edit]
- They have the time
The time or their life
I saw a man
He danced with his wife
In Chicago, my home town.- Song "Chicago" (lyrics Fred Fisher)
K[edit]
- Once there were old bosses. Now there are new bosses. And shopkeepers still keep their mouths shut. Tavern owners still keep their mouths shut. Even billionaires keep their mouths shut.
- I have struck a city — a real city — and they call it Chicago… Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
- Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea - Letters of Travel [2]
M[edit]
- Chicago has a long history of police violence and torture, with the full support of the ruling Democratic Party.
- George Marlowe, "Chicago residents speak on police torture at Homan Square 'black site'" (18 May 2015), World Socialist Web Site.
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- I came to discover that Chicago is that most American of American cities, but one where citizens from more than 130 nations inhabit a rich tapestry of distinctive neighborhoods. Each one of those neighborhoods -- from Greektown to the Ukrainian Village; from Devon to Pilsen to Washington Park -- has its own unique character, its own unique history, its songs, its language. But each is also part of our city -- one city -- a city where I finally found a home.
T[edit]
- In Chicago, the republicans needed the Negro vote to elect their whole ticket, so a nigger was nominated for judge and elected.
- Benjamin Tillman, speech (1906).
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- I tried not to make judgments. These people were doing something important, all of them. They were testing ways whereby people didn’t have to live in Chicago. That was a wonder to me. I had thought Chicago was inevitable, like diarrhea.
- John Varley, The Persistence of Vision in Nebula Winners Fourteen, p. 4.
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