Windy City Quotes

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

Anybody who has been to Chicago has a very positive view. But not everybody has come to Chicago, and in many ways, Chicago is an undiscovered treasure. It punches below its weight internationally.

Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.

Mr. Mayor. I've decided the best place for the '68 [Democratic] convention is Chicago! You are the one who can handle it!

People in Chicago are so cool! They are different; they're friendly and just genuinely happy. Everyone's so polite and sweet. They even look cool.

I think Chicago's a great city. Like New York, it's full of energy.

I loved the city of Chicago, and I love the Reinsdorfs. I'm forever grateful for them in taking a chance on me, allowing me to become the player that I am today. It's still incredible to me that I got to hoop in a Bulls jersey.

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

Chicago is home for me.

Chicago is a wonderful, vibrant city with wonderful food cultures to it, wonderful talent downtown.

People are always telling me to shut up about Chicago.

I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.

I love Chicago.

Chicago is an amazing place for sports.

I love Chicago. I love Wrigley Field.

Chicago is where I have always wanted to be.

Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's always been special.

I work for the Chicago Cubs, a team with a following so loyal and adoring and a history so forlorn that we were known nationwide as the Loveable Losers.

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride.

Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.

Chicago is a fantastic city, and I can easily see the Olympics setting themselves right here in Chicago.