I’ve been to Chicago a lot – it’s one of my favorite places. My wife is from Chicago, and I worked in the theater there a lot. – Christopher Walken
When Chinese get together – what’s buried stays buried. We don’t even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago. – Anchee Min
First of all, I’m a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it’s at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There’s just a good feel to it. – Bill Kurtis
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation. – Eugene V. Debs
My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. – Gus Van Sant
I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow! – David Hasselhoff
I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often. – Dave Eggers
I can’t stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies. – Daniel Barenboim
The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago. – Eric Lefkofsky
I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home. – Dennis Farina
It just so happens that I was born and raised in Washington. Had I been born in Chicago or San Antonio, the streets and places would have figured into whatever I wrote. Just so happens that it’s Washington, D.C. – Edward P. Jones
Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio. – Mel Torme
Any conductor who tells you that if he is approached for the directorship of the Chicago Symphony that he’s not interested in it, you know perfectly well he’s lying. – Daniel Barenboim
That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do. – Dennis Eckersley
Chicago is not a very fashion-driven place. Nobody says, ‘Oh, you’ve got to come see these fabulous people!’ Nobody cares. – Mike Nichols
I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well. – Cecily Strong
I’m always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio. – Frank Rich
There have been some terrible winters in Chicago, where it feels like I’m literally being punched in the face, and everyone walks around looking stunned like they’ve just witnessed a murder. – Cecily Strong
I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated. – Don Cornelius