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You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place.

My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.'

I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.

I love cookbooks for completely different reasons. I love 'The Harry's Bar Cookbook' and Marco-Pierre White's 'White Heat' for their feel. For pure learning, Gray Kunz wrote a great cookbook, 'The Elements of Taste', published in 2001. The first time I read Charlie Trotter's, the Chicago chef's first cookbook, I was blown away.

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

When you use Microsoft Outlook from the Indianapolis or Chicago office, there's no difference in performance compared to Dearborn.

We appreciate the way the fans have turned out this year. But you have an empty feeling in your stomach when you come out and see half of the ballpark empty. The players earned the people to be watching. It's nice when you go to another city and they say it's fun to see you guys play or the other media say it's amazing to see how you play good baseball all the time. And then you come to Chicago and you feel like you are missing something. You feel like we've done what we have to do to bring people to the ballpark.

We believe that local people know their local customers. People in Chicago are going to make the decisions for the people in Chicago.

Tom Petty kept his price very low compared to his contemporaries. Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire did, too, when they paired up for a tour, and it was very successful.

We remembered last year when we were down by 11 to West Chicago (in the sectional semifinal) and we came back and won, so we knew we could take this game.

We respect their right to show unity, but our focus is on what's right for our Chicago employees and their wages and benefits packages.

We're going to split crews up to handle the cargo. Some will go to Chicago and arrange for its export out of the country, and others will go directly to Beijing and wait for its arrival.

We're not a dynasty, we're just a good football team, and we've been a good football team since I've been here. The Chicago Bulls, they were a dynasty. They were a dynasty for six years, but once you lose, you're not a dynasty any more. I don't know how long dynasties last, but it seems like they don't last very long in professional sports nowadays.

When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.

We're still in it. Our series with Chicago is big.

We're seeing that at the classic rock station in Chicago that they have teenagers and people in their 20s calling in for this music.

Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.

He [Barak Obama]'s a guy from Chicago. He doesn't know what the hell to do. He's got a big pipe with a hole in it.

We have as many audiences as we have phases of our career. And all of us are older now. We've grown in different directions, so that the result is a band that's sometimes a little scattered -- just like it was with the original version of the band, really. ... All Chicago albums are stylistically all over the map, and that's a good thing. We can play to anyone.

We were at the Argonne Lab in Chicago on Monday collecting data, and by Thursday we were able to deposit two solved protein structures in the Protein Data Bank.

Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city.

Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?

We have not really advertised Chicago internationally.

Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

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

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.

Politics never takes a holiday in Chicago.

When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.

Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

We read a quote from the president about the Chicago White Sox. He said to them, 'Hey, you went out on opening day, and you never surrendered the lead for the rest of the season.' It's a nice thing to shoot for.

The real issue is does Chicago have the number of buyers that are willing to invest in a building like this.

The people of Chicago have made it very clear that they favor sensible restrictions on gun ownership.

They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire.

I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

We won the first two section championships. The second year we beat former USF and Chicago Bulls center Bill Cartwright at Elk Grove in the semifinals.

The pitching is a big core. You look at the Chicago White Sox, what they did last year, the New York Yankees, when they were in their heyday, they had pitching and that's what wins championships. You're very seldom going to slug it out with a team in the playoffs.

We're seeing the strongest interest in being involved with the team since I've been here. We are working on some national accounts that normally only look at Chicago or Minneapolis. A lot of doors that have been closed in the past are suddenly open.

Last year, we took a lot of heat in Chicago because they always say,

Many of them came from our traditionally strong sources of guests. If people used to live in Chicago and always wanted to take a dude ranch vacation, and now they live in Colorado, they're still going to want to take a dude ranch vacation.

Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations.

Show me the worst school districts in Detroit, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, and I'll show you parents that shouldn't be raising a Chia Pet, much less a child.

Since our voluntary reporting of the problem, the Chicago Sun-Times has been committed to make fair and equitable restitution to our advertisers.

She loves Oprah, and she's going to be in Chicago for her birthday anyway. What better way to continue to celebrate.

Minooka will be our first foray into the Midwest industrial market. In addition to New Jersey, Florida and California, we consider the Chicago area one of our core regions for development.

Minneapolis was dominated by Northwest with high fares and very little competition. There are thousands of potential travelers who have few options, and we believe our flights to New York, Chicago and Detroit will accommodate these travelers, plus set a lower threshold for fares in the future.

McGraw had been a great friend of my father's in the days when McGraw was managing the New York Giants and my daddy was president of the Chicago Cubs.

One of the tricky things about sort of larger, comic-book action movies is that the scale is so big that they have to save the world at the end of every movie, and so at the end of each of the films, either Chicago or New York end up getting obliterated.

My family and I are excited to be staying in Chicago through the 2009 season. Thanks to the passion and commitment of my staff, players and the entire Rush organization over the past six years, we have been able to build a team we all can be proud of.

Maybe the reason the VIX has dropped so low is that the options guys in Chicago are so exhausted from watching the Cubs,

Obviously, Chicago is a great market to be a part of. It's a great, great job in a great, great market, so I think there are going to be plenty of candidates.

Right now, Arizona is my team. Chicago is the past. That's it.

Right now Arizona is my team. Chicago is in the past. I am feeling good and it worked out very good.

My sense is that 'business as usual' in Chicago politics is ripe for investigation.

Next year will be spent concentrating on preparing for the trial in Chicago commencing in March of '07, and I doubt very much whether (Black) will be a newsmaker next year, let alone Business Newsmaker of the Year.

Night in and night out, you don't know which Chicago Bulls team is going to show up. The horrible team, the mediocre team or the team that's good. We have like three different faces.

New York has gotten more casual, Chicago has gotten more casual but Houston is still kind of formal when it comes to socializing.

New York, Chicago and Los Angeles have gotten expensive, and they haven't been growing a fast as Charlotte and Raleigh.

On that particular day, the incidents occurred while we were transporting people to Chicago for a work day.

I didn't mind High Fidelity being set in Chicago at all.

I don't care if you're a Cubs fan, a Bulls fan, a Bears fan. I think a lot of people now are Chicago fans,

I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing this revival of 'On a Clear Day,' and I actually auditioned when the team came through Chicago for the 'American Idiot' tour.

I am really looking forward to Chicago because we ran very well here earlier in the year,

Bunky is a master of goodwill. It is a pleasure to work with him as he supports such important initiatives in Chicago with style and class that is unmatched.

But Chicago is not just downtown and the Loop. It's really a city of neighborhoods, too.

I'm always thinking that something good is going to happen. I think if you go in there thinking, 'Yeah, you're going to get beat by 20,' there's no sense of us going. There's no sense of us getting on the plane and going to Chicago and giving us a chance.

I managed in Philadelphia for four years. The whole East Coast, obviously, the atmosphere is a lot different than out West or even in Milwaukee, Chicago or any of those cities. There's going to be times, obviously, where you get some people thrown out at home plate. You're going to make decisions that maybe don't go your way, and that's just the way baseball is.

I love directing. It's something I started doing in theatre when I was in university in Chicago and I started a theatre company right out of college and was directing for many years.

I had just come out of college, and I figured that I would probably be in Chicago for the next couple of years, and then maybe, I 'd get a chance to go to New York and hang out with the big boys.

I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.

If Chicago was a Stanley Cup playoff team, I might not be here. I want to show I can play. I'm just glad I'm here. I'm trying to prove I'm a good player.

If Chicago takes our account, we go take an account from Chicago. We have to not believe these big Fortune 500 companies are going to give us work simply because we are here.

I feel that if we can take care of business this weekend, one of us is going to be tied for third place next week. We've never been in third place at Chicago State.

Groupon, as you probably are by now aware, is exactly what it sounds like: a daily-deal site offering group discounts. Maybe you've seen that done before, but certainly not like Groupon, which has executed with an energetic sales force and engaging copywriters, many culled from the Chicago comedy scene.

From a strategic standpoint, this transaction will strengthen our presence in many of our existing markets across the country -- particularly in Northern and Southern California and the Southwest -- and enables us to enter important urban markets like Chicago and Philadelphia for the first time. Additionally, we will enter the stand-alone drugstore business for the first time.

I don't think any player worth his salt is content to be a backup, especially someone who has been a starter before. So I'm not going to resign myself to anything. I'm going to try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

For three days this summer, people will come to Chicago to witness musical history in real time.

For three consecutive years we've been the exclusive tire company of the Chicago Auto show, and our partnership with the show has given our brands and our products great visibility with consumers. This year we're proud to present an exhibit that both reflects our company's three important core values--trust, innovation and safety--and introduces visitors to our diverse businesses in the Americas as well as our global capabilities.

For whatever reason, the national gurus are reluctant to come into Chicago to see kids play. They have no idea how good many of the top teams in Chicago really are.

I got a little girl, she's 4-years-old. Ten years from now, when she asks me about the Chicago Bears, I'll tell her about a championship, and I'll tell her about great teams, and great teammates and great coaches. But the first thing I'll tell her about is Walter Payton.

I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in Chicago and didn't want to become a waitress here.

He had me arrested one morning at two o'clock in the morning. I was asleep. Banging on my door, and I opened the door and these big, burly Chicago coppers were there, and they said, "JOHN MAHONEY," and I said, "yes, that's me"... . "YOU'RE UNDER ARREST" and I said, "what for" and they said "FOR IMPERSONATING AN ACTOR".

Greg was still in Chicago after interviewing for the Kansas State job. We chatted a few minutes, then I told him that he was the guy to lead us in the future.

He grew up in New York and Chicago and liked the idea of an authentic Irish pub in Fort Myers. He spent a lot of time in Ireland and the family has a home there.

He got cracked pretty hard the other night in the Chicago game.

Today is not indicative of who we are. It's a little bit indicative of who Chicago is. I was very conscious of minutes and then at the end, I was very conscious of health.

The people who aren't going to vote aren't going to vote if you give them two months. But if you have any kind of political organization, this is a political gold mine. If you are a well-organized township or Chicago ward, you can get a good chunk of your vote way before the election.

We've got to win. These are our rivals, New Jersey, Chicago and Philly.

We think Courtney can step in and contribute right away. He comes from and excellent junior college program that traditionally is a national power. We are thrilled to be bringing a Chicago product back home and this is proof of our commitment to recruit the Chicago area. Courtney will fit in nicely as both a basketball player and as a student. We are excited to add him to the program.

We thought we'd see some New England Patriots in their offense, ... but it was still Pitt versus Notre Dame, not the Miami Dolphins or the Chicago Bears versus the New England Patriots.

He's a Cub, there's no doubt about it. Not only is he a great ballplayer and a Hall of Famer, but he's a Chicago Cub.

He's a Chicago kid. That team had a great future. I don't know if it's ever easy being traded. My hope is that this is a good situation for him.

He's a Chicago guy, explosive to the basket. He has a certain style the way he does things. At this point, though, it's not about being the best basketball player. As great a player as Tim Duncan is, he's not going to sell any shoes. He doesn't have that persona. It's about standing above the crowd. Just being a good guy and clean-cut guy is not going to do it.

Going into this game we needed the bench to give us both good minutes and good production, which they did. Chicago plays physical, they play hard. But to our credit, we can play that way.

Goldberg called around to friends she has, including one in Chicago who works at the same firm Ken Starr does. This person recommended Goldberg to call Jackie Bennett at the OIC. Goldberg advised that the OIC knew who this person is, and that this person is very nervous at this time.

Going to Chicago was a good experience for me, ... I was advised that one year back in school, to develop my body and touch-up skills, will put me in a better position next year to hopefully get into the first round.