My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches.

As a young queer kid growing up, I explored my identity through the Chicago and Washington, D.C., club scene.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.

And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.

I come from an era where you just build something. Me and Common built what we built from Chicago from scratch.

I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!

I haven't touched a piece of meat since I read a graphic description of Chicago's slaughterhouses when I was 12.

When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.'

I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.

For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.

The good thing I will say about the Chicago School is that it was always about the world, not about the abstract.

Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.

Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs.

Illinois and Chicago have shown they can compete on the world stage, and we will continue to answer the challenge.

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

He [Barak Obama]'s a guy from Chicago. He doesn't know what the hell to do. He's got a big pipe with a hole in it.

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

In Chicago, we have a century-old transit system that desperately needs updates to keep up with increased capacity.

My family has always made Chicago our home, and I care deeply about the values our company has espoused for decades.

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.

In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.

Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. I'm just not a cold weather person.

House is a big part of the rhythm in Chicago. I don't care if you're the most hood gangbanger - you understand house.

I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion.

I ain't expect it. I just expected to be Chicago famous - 'hood famous. I ain't expect to be outside-of-Chicago famous.

There's no other place that exemplifies a fanatic as much as Chicago. I feel like sports fans have bred out of Chicago.

I think of Chicago as a great entrepreneur city, a city that supports its own, that isn't as jaded as New York and L.A.

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

I loved 'Chicago Code;' I watched that a lot. It was great because it really captured the city - I'm from Chicago, too.

You don't know how it would have turned out if [kids] would grown up in Chicago instead, and a more normal environment.

When the Chicago rap scene came about, I listened to all of the upcoming artists like Lil Durk, Chief Keef and G Herbo.

Some things shoot in Chicago, but even those things that shoot there still cast their bigger roles in L.A. or New York.

All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.

Chicago is an incredibly great city, but it was clear to me that greatness wasn't being spread to all our neighborhoods.

Chicago is highly segregated, a fact that both causes and compounds the problems we face in bringing an end to violence.

The success story at Citadel has been written by a number of people who have backgrounds from the University of Chicago.

No shade to the other artists in Chicago... but if you got confidence in yourself and you know you're Number One, say it.

I'm a Chicago Cubs fan. I grew up in Libertyville, Illinois, and attended my first game at Wrigley Field when I was four.

The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef.

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

Chicago is not a very fashion-driven place. Nobody says, 'Oh, you've got to come see these fabulous people!' Nobody cares.

Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?

Food deserts on Chicago's South Side have shrunk some since 2006, and this has provided health benefits to the communities.

Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

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