(778 quotes found)
“Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.”
Eugene Debs
“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
“Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.”
Ashley Montagu
“She loves Oprah, and she's going to be in Chicago for her birthday anyway. What better way to continue to celebrate.”
Marsha Berry
“Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.”
Leonard L. Levinson
“They are pure, unduplicatable Chicago. they help explain why-in Chicago-it is unwise to take your eyes off any asset smaller than a locomotive.”
Keith Wheeler
“That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.”
Jerry Della Femina
“I thought it was a joke, I pretended to go along with it, just to scare Chicago. Then my agent said, 'Bobby, these guys are serious.'”
Bobby Hull
“A 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower in Chicago [and] a 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower directly across the street.”
Hugh Ferriss
“It would be wonderful for Chicago, but I don't know how we'd pay for it. I don't think Chicago can afford much more debt ? on this or anything else.”
Lester Crown
