My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.
Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.
I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.
But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.
Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.
My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.
I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
I got a little studio in Chicago and practiced. I realized I had to earn some money. So I went to work for an advertising agency where my job was mostly drawing insects for a company that sold an insecticide spray.
Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.
I've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.
It happened again this week. Hundreds of people had to be evacuated from O'Hare Airport in Chicago. Seems every time somebody went through with a weapon, the metal detectors accidentally went off.
We stayed on at the Institute [Chicago called the School of Design] because that was - I don't know, you start at one place and you stay there, I guess. Inertia takes over.
It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.
Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not an emotional relationship.
I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.
What I didn't know at the time [of my scholarship] was that the ceramic class was not really a very good class. This was many years ago and should not reflect on the conditions at the Art Institute of Chicago to this day, but we didn't know anything and we started to learn about how to work with clay.
My uncle was a cop, a career cop, on the beat in downtown Chicago. He was my hero when I was growing up.