Quotes about Chicago

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

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

Chicago, a town that's accustomed to its racial wounds and prides itself on a certain lack of sentiment.

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

You may be at paradise or in prison, at the movies or in Chicago, but you are always and unchangeably in Christ.

As long as the struggle was down in Alabama and Mississippi, they could look afar and think about it and say how terrible people are. When they discovered brotherhood had to be a reality in Chicago and that brotherhood extended to next door, then those latent hostilities came out.

I've said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.

I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we could think of. We weren't all that concerned with, you know, changing the world through mime.

All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.