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Alive from Snout to Tail
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.
- H. L. Mencken
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Always a Novelty
It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago - she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.
- Mark Twain "Life On The Mississippi," 1883
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American Place
[Chicago is] Perhaps the most typically American place in America.
- James Bryce, 1888
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Bears Fans vs. Sharks
Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
- Dave Barry "Sex and the Single Amoeba: What Every Teen Should Know"
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Better Neighbor
There's only one thing for Chicago to do, and that's to move to a better neighborhood.
- Herman Fetzer
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Broken Nosed Woman
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
- Nelson Algren
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Cement
There was no need to inform us of the protocol involved. We were from Chicago and knew all about cement.
- Groucho Marx, pressing his hands into the cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
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Chicago Bluesman
Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.
- Ralph Metcalfe
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Chicago vs. Cincinnati
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have: Cincinnati sounds worse.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, January, 1880
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Chicago's Benefactor
I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job - it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.
- Al Capone, 1927
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City of Contradictions
Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together. If the city was unhappy with itself yesterday - and invariably it was - it will reinvent itself today.
- Pat Colander "A Metropolis of No Little Plans" NY Times, May 5, 1985
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Dante, Milton, and Sandburg
Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
- Carl Sandburg, in Harry Golden, Carl Sandburg, 1961
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Ethnic Taverns
A lot of real Chicago lives in the neighborhood taverns. It is the mixed German and Irish and Polish gift to the city, a bit of the old country grafted into a strong new plant in the new.
- Bill Granger, 1983
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Facade of Skyscrapers
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.
- E.M. Forster
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First in Violence
First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.
- Lincoln Steffens, "The Shame of the Cities," 1904
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Friend of the Fans
My friends are the fans, not the owners. Dignity isn't my suit of clothes.
- Bill Veeck, two-time owner of the Chicago White Sox
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Full of Crime as a Saw has Teeth
The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.
- John Gunther, Inside U.S.A, 1947
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Hog Butcher for the World
Hog butcher for the world,
Tool maker, stacker of wheat,
Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of big shoulders.
- Carl Sandburg, "Chicago," 1916
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How Money Was Made?
Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.
- Norman Mailer, Miami and the Siege of Chicago, 1968
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January and February
I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.
- Gary Cole
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