#chicago

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly. ↗

— George Stigler

#before #central #chicago #close #department

I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#brothers #cause #chicago #during #farm

It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings. ↗

— George Barr McCutcheon

#bright #buildings #cable #chicago #clear

Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity. ↗

— Will McDonough

#athlete #brought #bulls #chicago #dominated

I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops. ↗

— Tim Meadows

#been #chicago #cops #gun #had

I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've got a Chicago one worth $100. ↗

— Michael Rosenbaum

#chicago #classic #collect #donkey #duran

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune. ↗

— Alexander Woollcott

#chicago #germany #hitler #much #responsible

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s. ↗

— Lionel Hampton

#growing #growing up #hard #harmony #i

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

#authority #bus #bus driver #chicago #driver

The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis. ↗

— William Jackson

#based #characters #chicago #combinations #degree