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“Poor health was not just the result of random acts, bad luck, bad behavior or unfortunate genetics. Deliberate public policy decision about housing, education, parks and streets were the key driver...”
“But we [writers] are crucial. That is what I hope you have learned. We listen for and collect and share stories. Without stories there is no nation and no religion and no culture. Without stories o...”
“The stars glittered in the sky and as the number of people at the party grew there were merging conversations and laughter and bodies moving in outlines around the kegs of beer in a curtsy of youth.”
“Shortly before school started, I moved into a studio apartment on a quiet street near the bustle of the downtown in one of the most self-conscious bends of the world. The Gold Coast was a neighborh...”
“He'd searched every corner of his mind looking for ways to avoid a rendezvous with Chico. In the last twenty years, Slade had come a long way from the ghetto orphanage where he'd grown up, but the ...”
“I am consoled only to see that I was not mistaken: Chicago is just as I remembered it. I was here twenty five years ago. My father brought me and Scott up to see the Century of Progress and once la...”
“And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.”
“Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.”
“T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.”
“I . . . hurried to the city library to find out the true age of Chicago. City library! After all, it cannot be anything but Chicagoesque. His is the richest library, no doubt, as everything in Chic...”
“Actually, they fought to fill the emptiness of their lives as they filled their empty glasses. They foughtnot because the liquor was in them, but because it did not fill them enough.”
“It was a generation growing in its disillusionment about the deepening recession and the backroom handshakes and greedy deals for private little pots of gold that created the largest financial melt...”
“She loves swimming, said Ellen, who I knew had been a competitive swimmer in college. Ellen looked in the rearview mirror at Kara.Dont you Kara? asked Ellen.There was no response. I didnt start unt...”
“Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.”
“Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.”
“There seems to be a different Chicago around every street corner, behind every bar, and within every apartment, two-flat, cottage, or bungalow. City of immigrants or city of heartless plutocrats, s...”
“Chicago does not go to the world, the world comes to Chicago! Who needs New York? Who has taller buildings than our tall buildings? Who's got a busier airport than our airport? You want Picasso? We...”
“Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money?” asked a nearby man in a white shirt to another man in a striped shirt. I waited for the answer as I slowly walked past them. “Wh...”
“Don’t you think most of those kids think too much about who got an A or a B when they were in law school and what that means to an inflated G.P.A. and not enough about the world?” asked Connor irre...”
“Really, nobody was there?” I asked.“Well, nobody important,” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.”
