Chicago is the product
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation. Eugene V. Debs
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Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation. Eugene V. Debs
I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. They’ve been a great inspiration to me. Ernie Banks
I was always embarresed by the words ‘sacred,’ ‘glorious,’ and ‘sacrifice’ and the expression ‘in vain.’ We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a … Read more
It doesn’t look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after hour in the cockpit of the one that American used for training, at the company school in Chicago, saying to each other, ‘My God, do you think we’ll ever learn to … Read more
I love being in Chicago. Erin Heatherton
Place has always been important to me, and one thing today’s Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour … Read more
I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold. Erik Larson
Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world Erik Larson
It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history. Erik Larson
I think it’s weird that people think someone who’s not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago. Eric Zorn