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No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

~Bethany Mclean

Topics: Chicago City Eagerly Embraced Live More Privatization Than Where

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Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.

~Bill Ayers

Topics: Because Chicago Claim Demonstration Everyone Felt Generation Like Millions Millions Of People Our Our Generation People Relatively Small Talked Time Were Who Woodstock

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Nine of 10 whites in Chicago borrow from top-drawer banks and mortgage companies, which the industry calls prime lenders. They lend to people with A credit ratings, making loans at competitive rates.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Banks Borrow Calls Chicago Companies Competitive Credit Industry Lend Loans Making Mortgage Nine People Prime Rates Ratings Which Whites

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Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Above Blows Chicago Children Dominican Republic Drive Exuberance Fans Figure Floor Four He His Kisses Lake Love Mother Poverty Republic Rising Shore Wife

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Many visitors to Chicago know the Loop, the shops on the Magnificent Mile, and the Museum Campus. Meanwhile, much of the bustle is in the developing neighborhoods around the Loop: North, South and West.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Around Campus Chicago Developing Know Loop Magnificent Many Meanwhile Mile Much Museum Neighborhoods North Shops South Visitors West

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In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Chicago Integrated Long Neighborhoods Stay

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First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.

~Bill Kurtis

Topics: Basically Being Big Built Chicago Cow Edge Everyone Feel First First Of All Friendly Good Just Kansas Midwestern Prairie Town Very

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I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.

~Bill Lipinski

Topics: Because Chicago Leaving More Spend Time Want Wife

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My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.

~Bill Moseley

Topics: American As Far As Car Chicago Company Consciousness Dad Employment Far Freight General Grandfather Had Illinois Made Manufacturing Pragmatic Republican Tank Transportation Worked

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I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.

~Bill Murray

Topics: Actor Came Chicago City Fellow More Old Out Second Second City Themselves Tough I Came

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