For a few years, there were three shows running on Broadway that I had all opened: 'Chicago,' 'Wicked' and 'Anything Goes.'

I originally wanted to stay in Chicago as long as I could. I love Chicago. I don't love L.A. I don't want to leave Chicago.

The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.

The musicians in Chicago gave me my vocation, but New York calls to a jazz musician, for sure. You want to test your mettle.

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

Since I was drafted by the Blackhawks, the people of Chicago have really embraced me and treated me with nothing but respect.

The average Liberian, it turns out, does not share the same assumptions as the average black Methodist minister from Chicago.

My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.

I would encourage the people out in Chicago and all of us to continue to press for, that type of prosecutorial accountability.

The best creative no longer has to originate in Chicago or London; it will be coming from Stockholm, Tokyo, and Seoul as well.

Death can happen anywhere, but kids in Chicago, like 4 years old, can get shot. You don't really hear that in too many places.

I built RPM Italian, a restaurant I frequent as much as I can, because that is what people from Chicago do. They build things.

As an undergrad at Columbia College in Chicago, I came across 'Boondocks,' and then I watched the 'Boondocks' television show.

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.

I need to be working with the art world in N.Y.C. as much as I need to be working in my studios in Chicago and rural Wisconsin.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

We could see the Teamsters coming in from New Jersey, the AFL-CIO from Chicago. You could see all of the people being bused in.

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.

A cousin of mine was a graphic designer, and he took me as a kid to see Flesh for Lulu and Social Distortion in 1988 in Chicago.

I'm just as unhappy about San Antonio as I was about Chicago. If you're unhappy about certain things, you're unhappy everywhere.

A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room.

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.

Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.

When I was a kid, I lived in a poor part of Chicago, and I remember my brother and me using towels as capes. My son does it, too.

Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.

My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.

When I'm back home in Chicago, since 'Roseanne' was such a Midwestern, blue-collar show, that's what sticks out in people's minds.

When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.

My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.

I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.

There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different.

When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning.

You don't have good community relations in Chicago. It's terrible. I have property there. It's terrible what's going on in Chicago.

My kids are really dope. I was just at home in Chicago, and my daughter Brittany was interviewing me. It was like I was on 'Oprah.'

In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

After being away at college and in the Army, I never considered living anywhere else. I loved Chicago then, and I love Chicago now.

I obviously spent a lot of time in New York City, and I loved it, but Chicago has a very different history than New York City does.

I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.

Getting to be in Chicago when the Cubs won the World Series was one of the most magical experiences I think I've ever had in a city.

No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza.

The more I got into my artistry, I got a bigger responsibility: the kids in Chicago, they look up to the rappers. We influence them.

Competing and streaming 'Fortnite' all night at the most iconic building in Chicago, a city close to my heart, is a dream come true.

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

I've been lucky to conduct the very best orchestras in the world: New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin, the London Philharmonic.

No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

We can't just rest on the fact that this is beautiful Chicago. I want to triple down on that experience and make it... life-altering.

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