#chicago

In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#city #communities #days #did #everyone

The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#always #belongs #business #chicago #coalition

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student. ↗

— James Cronin

#chicago #education #entered #graduate #graduate student

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#chicago #figure #figure skating #hockey #lot

As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city's South Side, back in 2005. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#been #chicago #citadel #city #conservatives

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#chicago #city #eventually #great #great city

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#beautiful #better #chicago #city #eventually

The fire was barely fifteen minutes old. What followed was a series of fatal errors that set the fire free and doomed the city to a fiery death. ↗

— Jim Murphy

#jim-murphy #death

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being. ↗

— James Belushi

#celebrities #chicago #democratic #general #human

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#aids #always #book #chicago #child