I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.
Ted Lindsay
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Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.
Lincoln Steffens
ChanceYouChicagoWillSpiritGive
'Chicago Fire' has been a wonderful outlet for me. We're thrown into the gritty streets of Chicago working among actual first responders. They're a wonderful bunch, and the sense of community among Midwesterners is very similar to Australians.
Jesse Spencer
CommunityFireMeChicagoFirst
I left Detroit in 2007, worked on a cruise ship for a year, moved to Chicago in '08, then moved to L.A. in February 2012.
Sam Richardson
FebruaryShipYearChicagoDetroit
The culture of rigorous questioning and open discourse at the University of Chicago has opened minds to ideas that have changed the world.
Kenneth C. Griffin
CultureIdeasWorldChicagoMinds
For a few years, there were three shows running on Broadway that I had all opened: 'Chicago,' 'Wicked' and 'Anything Goes.'
Joel Grey
ChicagoThreeYearsWickedAnything
Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores.
Rahm Emanuel
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I was so glad to get out of the cotton patch and stop pickin' cotton, I wouldn't of cared who come by and said, 'I'll take you to Chicago.'
Koko Taylor
YouStopSaidChicagoCottonOut
'Will Grayson, Will Grayson' is about two guys named Will Grayson who live in different Chicago suburbs who eventually meet each other.
John Green
LiveChicagoMeetWillTwoSuburbs
I grew up on the North Shore of Chicago, and I don't think I had a friend that wasn't Jewish. I spent more time in a temple than any other house of worship. I've been to about 150 bar and bat mitzvahs.
Rachel Brosnahan
FriendTimeThinkHouseChicagoBar
The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.
Jane Byrne
GoodPeopleProudChicagoReason
I lived in Chicago in the early '80s and did a ton of theater, and then Nick lived there in the '90s and did a ton of theater. Then we both moved to L.A. and did a ton of television.
Megan Mullally
EarlyTelevisionChicagoLivedMoved
His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen.
Nancy Sinatra
MeGoKnowChicagoHimTwo
I grew up in a Southside suburb of Chicago. It was idyllic. But I was plunked into a family that was not artistic and didn't know how to deal with my emotions.
Jane Lynch
FamilyEmotionsKnowChicagoUpHow
L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.
Matt Walsh
BusinessPeopleKnowChicagoSayUp
I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
Jack Steinberger
ArmyWaveChicagoIntroduction
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.
James Iha
ChicagoUpSuburbsGrew
I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold.
Amy Poehler
ColdThinkI CanChicagoKindLived
From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor, I reported in a publication about the thinkers. Our offices were in a former mansion; I worked in what had been the ballroom. As I sat typing my copy, I imagined the dancers waltzing.
Karen DeCrow
WorkThinkEnoughCopyChicago
I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.
Henry Rollins
GoodSmartBackChicagoCheerful
In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.
Steve Albini
BlackFriendsChicagoFirstBigDid
In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.
Hannibal Buress
HometownChicagoKindDealMedium
I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue.
George Saunders
ThinkChicagoKidBigHerFan
The average Liberian, it turns out, does not share the same assumptions as the average black Methodist minister from Chicago.
Tucker Carlson
BlackAssumptionsChicagoSameOut
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