1 | ->''"I have struck a city—a real city—and they call it Chicago … I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages."'' |
2 | -->-- '''Creator/RudyardKipling''', 1891 |
3 | |
4 | ->''"It rained and fogged in Chicago and muddy-flowing people oozed thick in the canyon-beds of the streets. [[TakeThat Yet it seemed to more alive and more real than]] [[BigApplesauce New York]]."'' |
5 | -->-- '''D. H. Lawrence''' |
6 | |
7 | ->''"There's a bright, sunny day in Chicago\ |
8 | There's a bright, sunny day in Chicago\ |
9 | Corruption's as high as an elephant's eye\ |
10 | And the meters cost $74.25"'' |
11 | -->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''', [[WebVideo/TGWTGYearOneBrawl "Oh, What an Adequate Morning"]] |
12 | |
13 | ->(''Bartlet and Leo are on their way to a meeting with Babish'')\ |
14 | '''Leo:''' You're scared of Babish.\ |
15 | '''Bartlet:''' Oh, like you're not.\ |
16 | '''Leo:''' No, because we are both men of Chicago.\ |
17 | '''Bartlet:''' What is it with people from Chicago that they're so happy to have been born there? I meet so many people who can't wait to tell me they're from Chicago and when I meet them, [[HypocriticalHumor they're living anywhere but Chicago.]]\ |
18 | '''Leo:''' You wouldn't understand. |
19 | -->-- ''Series/TheWestWing'' 2x19, "Bad Moon Rising" |
20 | |
21 | ->''"Chicago was founded by two guys from UsefulNotes/{{New York|City}} who said, 'You know, I really like the crime and congestion, but the weather's just not crappy enough.'"'' |
22 | -->-- '''Paul Reiser''' |
23 | |
24 | ->''"Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders..."'' |
25 | -->-- '''Carl Sandburg''', "Chicago" |
26 | |
27 | ->''Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.'' |
28 | -->-- '''Creator/NeilGaiman''', ''Literature/AmericanGods'' |
29 | |
30 | ->The city of "I will." ''Born in a battle against slough and swale, a land that showed neither promise nor purpose, won with metal, with concrete, with our own hands, hammering, forging and building [...] They say that greatness is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice. I say that greatness is not something we can wait for. It's something we achieve. Because we are the city of'' "I will." |
31 | -->-- '''Mayor Tom Kane''', ''Series/{{Boss}}'' |
32 | |
33 | ->''"Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest -- people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago, and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago."'' |
34 | -->-- '''Creator/HaroldRamis''' |
35 | |
36 | ->''"I lived in Chicago for three years, and even if they grew up in the super-white, John Hughes parts of Chicago like I did, dipshits from Chicago will always ''act'' as if they grew up near Cabrini Green and spent their formative years bootlegging for Al Capone. [[Film/TheUntouchables HE PULLS A KNIFE, YOU PULL A ZIMA.]]"'' |
37 | -->--'''[[http://deadspin.com/why-your-team-sucks-2014-chicago-bears-1627368933 Drew Magary]]''', "Why Your Team Sucks 2014: Chicago Bears" |
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