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• I’m from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.

  John Hughes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chicago, Succeed

• If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you’re in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you’ll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

  Glen Hansard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stand, Chicago, Corner

• I’m a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chicago, I Remember

• I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and doing theater, I was, in all likelihood, not going to find financial success.

  David Schwimmer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chicago, Staying

• I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that’s my issue.

  George Saunders

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chicago, Dear

• Our friends in the group Chicago, they just numbered theirs and we thought that was kind of neat but it made continuity from album to album and that was our way of doing it.

  Gerry Beckley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friends, Group, Chicago

• There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

  Suzanne Fields

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chicago, Economics, Department

• I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

  George Stigler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chicago, University

• In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.

  George Stigler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chicago

• My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

  George Stigler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chicago, University

• And then when I went to Chicago, that’s when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.

  Sun Ra

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chicago

• I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.

  Steve Albini

  Topics in College

  Tags in Chicago

• My uncle was the town drunk – and we lived in Chicago.

  George Gobel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chicago

• 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

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Office, Chicago

• I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

  Georg Solti

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chicago, Symphony

• In Chicago, we love our crooks!

  David Mamet

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Chicago, Crooks

• My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly’s.

  Shelley Berman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Night, Chicago

• I’d studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn’t worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

  Gene Kelly

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Chicago, Broadway

• I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

  Gary Michael Cole

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Chicago