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The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

~Eric Lefkofsky

Topics: Chicago Coast East East Coast Finding Manner Money Way West West Coast

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I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.

~Eric Lefkofsky

Topics: Another Boston Certainly Chicago Companies Cool Down Five Four Getting Getting Started Interesting Lot New New York Out Pockets Really Seattle Seeing Silicon Silicon Valley Some South Started Stuff Technology Them Think Valley Where York You I Think

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Yes, William E. Dodd was the - became the - America's first ambassador to Nazi Germany. Prior to that, he was a professor of history at the University of Chicago - mild-mannered guy.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Ambassador America Became Chicago First Germany Guy He History Prior Professor University William Yes

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'The Devil in the White City' - the 'White City' was the nickname for the World's Fair of 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Chicago City Devil Fair Nickname White World

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The telephone call that forever changed the lives of the Dodd family of Chicago came at noon on Thursday, June 8, 1933, as William E. Dodd sat at his desk at the University of Chicago.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Call Came Changed Chicago Desk Family Forever His June Lives Noon Sat Telephone Thursday University William

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I knew Berlin would have to become a kind of character in my new book, 'In the Garden of Beasts'. I had felt likewise about Chicago when I wrote 'The Devil in the White City' and Galveston with 'Isaac's Storm'.

~Erik Larson

Topics: About Beasts Become Berlin Book Character Chicago City Devil Felt Garden Had Isaac Kind Knew Likewise New New Book Storm White Would Wrote

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I knew from an online search that the Wisconsin State Historical Society, on the vast University of Wisconsin campus, held the papers of Sigrid Schultz, a spunky correspondent for the 'Chicago Tribune' who became one of Martha Dodd's friends in Berlin.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Became Berlin Campus Chicago Correspondent Friends Held Historical Knew Martha Online Papers Search Society State University Vast Who Wisconsin

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I love being in Chicago.

~Erin Heatherton

Topics: Being Chicago Love I Love

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It was about 105 degrees in Chicago. And that's a time when everybody gets tired. I came into the clubhouse, and everybody was sitting around, and I said, 'Beautiful day. Let's play two!' And everybody looked at me like I was crazy. There were a couple of writers around, and they wrote that, and it stayed with me.

~Ernie Banks

Topics: About Around Beautiful Beautiful Day Came Chicago Clubhouse Couple Crazy Day Degrees Everybody Gets Like Looked Me Play Said Sitting Stayed Time Tired Two Were Writers Wrote I Came

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Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

~Eugene V. Debs

Topics: Capitalism Centers Chicago Commercial Great Human Like Modern Other Product Unfit

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