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"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."
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"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."

"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."

"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."

"I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops."

"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."

"Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago."

"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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"Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together."
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