It's just good that Detroit is coming back. I'm so happy it's coming back because it needs to come back. When I do my trips around the world, and I can be anywhere, but I always see somebody from Detroit or Chicago. Those guys are world travelers.
Remember, no matter how hard your life is right now, it would be worse if a song by Chicago was playing.
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
I got that first record out, it came out in '47. . . Then my name began to ring around. I began to take over. From that point, I tell you, Chicago was in my hand, all the more time that those guys had to listen to me.
I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish.
Theater in Chicago will always be my first love.
The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction. The radio stations went off at sundown. Then you picked up Chicago and heard the teenage music you really yearned for.
I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though youre poking fun at someone or something, theres still an affection for it.
When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities. . . when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.
You don't know how it would have turned out if [kids] would grown up in Chicago instead, and a more normal environment.
I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.
I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.
I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the sad blues, necessarily; the Chicago blues is what I like, which is the kind of blues you can dance to.
I don’t know. But it’s my option. I don’t want to leave Chicago. I want to be successful here. I want to help this team, like I always say, be in the pennant race… I don’t want to leave, and I don’t think I will leave.
I am an American – Chicago born.
We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.
I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can. The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
What an incredibly beautiful city at night Chicago is. Absolutely beautiful.
[On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.
When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened.
