Chicago

See also, Chicago (2002 film) and Chicago (band).

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 Obama

It's every man for himself in this hired air. / Yet once you've come to be 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 (1951)

[About Chicago:] An October sort of city even in spring.
- Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make (1951)

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 [1]

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.
- Barack Obama, The Huffington Post

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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