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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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"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."
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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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"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
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"I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops."
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"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."
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"In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record."
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"Hell has been described as a pocket edition of 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 first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here."
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"I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston."
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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."
Chicago
"When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor."
Medical
"Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation."
Accident
"Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem."
Medical
"There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes."
Control
"When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies."
Men
"It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases."
Experience
"It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control."
Work
"From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands."
Food
"No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding."
Work
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