Top 1200 City Of Chicago Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

CM has always stood for one thing: Chicago Made. Chick Magnet? That's preposterous. Girls don't like me. I was born and raised in Chicago. The city made me. Punk is just because I've always been a smart-mouthed, wise-ass punk. I still am. I was the guy, if a bunch of football players were messing with one of my friends, I'd walk over there and spit in their face.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.

I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into 'Second City.' When I moved to Chicago, my goal was to try to work at 'Second City.' And beyond that, my goal was to make enough money as an actor to not do anything else but act, not have to go and wait tables again.

Chicago is great! It's like the heart of America. It's the center and it's a beautiful city.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

Chicago is a world-class city filled with amazing people with big ideas.

I like Chicago. It's a great city. It's always fun to revisit it.

Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

By the time I was 14, my most burning ambition was to leave my home, leave my neighborhood, leave my city. I kept it a secret wish. It was easier done than said. It wasn't only that I wanted to leave Chicago - I wanted to live in New York City. And I did - for a time.

I want to be on that team that wins the world championship here in Chicago and sees the city go crazy.

I've called Chicago home for nearly 25 years. It's a city of broad shoulders and big hearts and bold dreams; a city of legendary sports figures, legendary sports venues, and legendary sports fans.

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

Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.

I know that James Brown recording where he sings about Chicago. I think he sings, like, 'Chicago, my hometown!' That's what I think of when I think of Chicago. And I think of Chicago Bulls.

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.

Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.

Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.

I think Chicago's a great city. Like New York, it's full of energy.

Chicago is a city of neighborhoods, and I love that. It's cool to have different foods from all over the world within a stone's throw of my house.

I always honestly dreamed of coming to Second City in Chicago, although I've never even been there to see a show. But I did a ton of sketch comedy at the Second City in LA, which (at the time, in a different location) wasn't really a theater, it was just a space where you took some classes.

Chicago prides itself on being a mean city.

Second City Las Vegas is very different from Second City in Chicago on the main stage, where they do improv sets. That's how they kind of hone material, kind of work up to new material.

I just want to shine a light on the city of Chicago.

I originally wanted to stay in Chicago as long as I could. I love Chicago. I don't love L.A. I don't want to leave Chicago.

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

Certain parts are bad in every city, but Chicago is beautiful.

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I've come to love this American giant, viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like my City of Big Shoulders.

The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.

I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore.

I moved to Chicago and began attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The students and teachers I met in Chicago were politically active and also passionate about the same things that I was interested in. It was a great match for me.

My family, I can say, is pretty Americanized. My son has lived pretty much all his life in Chicago, my daughter was born in Chicago, we all like Chicago.

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

My character started off on 'Chicago P.D.' as the brother to Detective Jake Halstead, and then I also played on 'Chicago Fire.' So, I really worked on both shows before 'Chicago Med' even started.

I love Chicago. It is my new favorite city. It is the perfect place to do any kind of theater.

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.

(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion.

I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.

Chicago is a rough city. It made me raw.

I love the city of Chicago. They are so welcoming to the shows that shoot here.

Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds

I've never seen a theater community to rival that of Chicago. Neither New York nor L.A. has the raw talent or integrity that Chicago theater has, and I think it's because Chicago doesn't have Broadway or the film and TV business to distract it.

My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches.

Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.

Chicago is an incredibly great city, but it was clear to me that greatness wasn't being spread to all our neighborhoods.

Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

I swore I'd be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn't give a damn, just as long as I'd be in Chicago tomorrow.

Chicago is like a New York City. It's one of the those older cities. It really means something to fight there.

It is still the arena of those who dream of the City of Man and those who envision a City of Things. The battle appears to be forever joined. The armies, ignorant and enlightened, clash by day as well as night. Chicago is America's dream, writ large. And flamboyantly.

I think, yeah, Chicago is the best basketball city in America.

Getting to be in Chicago when the Cubs won the World Series was one of the most magical experiences I think I've ever had in a city.

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

I enjoy my job. And I love the city of Chicago, and this organization - it gave me the start to my whole career.