“Quotes”

Sometimes, nothing better than a quote will do. First, I will post some I found, then I will post some great ones from the Facebook crowd. Sit back, enjoy and please post one here or on Facebook if you have more!

“If you can’t make it here, you can’t make it anywhere.” Old Chicago proverb

That is frakking hilarious. It is so second city, I love it. It makes me laugh out loud.

“Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.” - Claes Oldenburg.

I’m not exactly sure what it means, but it sounds cool. I googled Mr. Claes Oldenburg; he’s a Swedish sculptor, raised in Chicago and is the sculptor of  “Batcolumn” at 600 W. Madison:

“Had I known in 1890 how long it would take me to preserve a park for the people against their will, I doubt if I would have undertaken it.” – Aaron Montgomery Ward

This always makes me cry when I give tours and Montgomery Ward comes up. I seriously get teary. I want to tell him that we all love him and he was awesome and that we’re so thankful.

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Sharon Williams

“Chicago ain’t no sissy town.” -Hinky Dink Kenna

Chip Aucoin

“Doors open on the right at Belmont.”

Jay Austin Sukow

“Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.” – Nelson Algren
Or
“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.” – Frank Llyod Wright

Benjamin Tregoning

Da’ Bears

Cory Russ Rickerson

“I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.” -Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (1844-1923)

Martin Konopacki

“I resent insinuendoes.” Richard J. Daley

Jill Lawler-Cornejo

Go cubs go, go cubs go…hey chicago whada ya say cubs r gonna win today……….

Rebecca Langguth

“This is Grand.”

And the classics:

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose. – Nelson Algren.Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It’s the most theatrically corrupt – Studs Terkel

You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That’s* the Chicago way! – Jim Malone, via Sean Connery, by way of David Mamet.

David Petitti

“This is Chicago. This is America.” ~ Richard J. Daley