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Chicago, Chicago, that toddlin' town.
(Fred Fisher (1875-1942), U.S. songwriter. "Chicago," Fred Fisher, Inc. (1922).
Music composed by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990).)
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Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?
(Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929), U.S. sociologist. Human Nature and the Social Order, ch. 2 (1902).)
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Being a [Chicago] Cubs fan prepares you for life—and Washington.
(Hillary Rodham Clinton (b. 1947), U.S. attorney; First Lady of the United States. As quoted in Newsweek, p. 17 (April 18, 1994).
On how being a fan of the beleaguered baseball club "hardened her to adversity.")
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Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
(Ishmael Reed (b. 1938), U.S. novelist, poet, essayist. repr. In Writin' Is Fightin,' Atheneum (1988). "America's Color Bind: The Modeling of Minorities," San Francisco Examiner (November 1987).)
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Must we really see Chicago in order to be educated?
(Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Mr. Erskine, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 3 (1891).)
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Chicago—is—oh well a faηade of skyscrapers facing a lake, and behind the faηade every type of dubiousness.
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. Letter, June 5, 1947. Selected Letters of E.M. Forster, vol. 2, eds. Mary Lago and P.N. Furbank (1985).)
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Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.
(David Mamet, U.S. screenwriter, and Brian DePalma. Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery), The Untouchables, explanation of local police corruption to Elliot Ness (Kevin Costner) (1987).)
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It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.... In a great workshop like Chicago this creative power germinates, even though the brutality and selfish preoccupation of the place drive it elsewhere for bread. Men of this type have loved Chicago, have worked for her, and believed in her. The hardest thing they have to bear is her shame. These men could live and work here when to live and work in New York would stifle their genius and fill their purse.... New York still believes that art should be imported; brought over in ships; and is a quite contented market place. So while New York has reproduced much and produced nothing, Chicago's achievements in architecture have gained world-wide recognition as a distinctively American architecture.
(Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959), U.S. architect. "Chicago Culture," On Architecture: Selected Writings (1894-1940), Duell, Sloan, & Pearce (1941).
Originally delivered as a lecture to the Chicago Women's Aid (1918).)
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