“In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold.”
Gary Washburn
“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.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“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.”
Rudyard Kipling
“There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.”
Suzanne Fields
“The city of Chicago was a character in the movie, as depicted by Landis and I think all of us, in the affection we had for it. It really is one of the characters of the movie. It really comes alive as a beautiful place.”
Dan Aykroyd
