It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago. She outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them.
I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib.
Chicago is a town, a city that doesn't back down, doesn't give up, doesn't go home just because it's losing. That's my kind of town.
I miss Chicago. I miss the barbecues in the summer. I miss the skyways and the street fairs and the lake.
Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together.
I've always been struck by the fact that you can find hidden gems in a city the size of Chicago.
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; it's the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
Chicago is one of the rare places where architecture is more visible and more spectacular than the art within.
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.