All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.
It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well.
I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way.
No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.
We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.
God created me to be an individual. And I am a Chicago dude that grew up the way I grew up and was named Rashid and was given a certain purpose and mission. So, I am rare for those reasons.
I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.
President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against black people in Chicago is reflective of Mr. Emmanuel's values.
I love being in Chicago.
Politics never takes a holiday in Chicago.
I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming
There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be.
Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.
I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago.
I know the Chicago media will write a lot of bad things, but they'll write a lot of good things too. I can live with that. In Cleveland, all I got was negative press.
Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.
I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.
When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do - but because I have long hair.
Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.