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"A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone."
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"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."
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"His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen."
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"Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring."
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"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."
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"It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters."
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"Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago."
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"And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets."
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"My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago."
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"My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's."
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"Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring."
Chicago

"Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity."
Legal

"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."
Family

"The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible."
Love

"Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose."
Chicago

"The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man."
Man
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