“I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just that. People wanna romanticize it and say, 'There's two sides to it, and it's a beautiful love/hate story of violence and music.' But it's really just a very scummy place where people don't have respect for other people's lives.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTwoStoriesBeautifulHateSidesViolenceChicagoRespecting OthersTwo SidesLove HateBeautiful Love Author:Chance the Rapper
“I think it's so dope that I'm here in Chicago and contributing to the music scene that's thriving. People are so happy Chicago's shining that everyone is willing to say 'I represent Chicago.' That wasn't always the case.” PeopleThinkingCasesWillingSceneShiningChicagoContributingDope Author:Chance the Rapper
“It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.” ThinkingStillsI CanKidsAgeCertainLeftGrowsCitiesGrowing UpAliveChicagoRealised Author:Chance the Rapper
“Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location.” ThinkingWellsLongReasonUsedNew YorkLateLong TimeFilmmakerChicagoLocation Author:Richard Roeper
“I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as an artist and an actor. In that sense, it had to have helped me.” PeopleThinkingArtistActorsLevelsSpecialEastChicagoSensibilityCoastMidwestEast CoastConfluenceSpecial People Author:Daniel Sunjata
“I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue.” ThinkingBigsKidsIssuesFansDearChicagoIronicAbbyCrankyHairdosBeehives Author:George Saunders
“I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.” PeopleThinkingWorldMadeCitiesNew YorkGrewGrew UpWinterLondonInsaneShootingLos AngelesChicagoPhiladelphiaPittsburghNorway Author:John Landis
“I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.” ThinkingKindPersonsCountryRememberChicagoDirtDirt Roads Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!” PeopleThinkingKindStillsAmericaNew YorkSouthIndianChicagoAsianExoticIndian Food Author:Aasif Mandvi