Gold Coast” was a neighborhood that stretched five blocks along the lake in a sliver of land just south of Lincoln Park and north of River North. The streets were like fine necklaces and strung...

… Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

By the sound of things, you know nothing about mathematics.”You can put it like that. I’m utterly useless.”Useless is such a harsh word, you are merely… inexperienced. So I thought we could start at the...

Poor health was not just the result of random acts, bad luck, bad behavior or unfortunate genetics. Deliberate public policy decision about housing, education, parks and streets were the key drivers of racial differences in...

It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago.

It’s just not.

But that kiss did more than turn her into a puddle of lust. It terrified her. Not because of how soul-searingly good it was, but because kisses like that don’t just happen. Kisses like that...

Law school was over at last!

It’s the place built out of Man’s ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man’s endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities...

In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.

And as if by magic – and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and that we, we now past Americans, were once the magical people of it,...

I . . . hurried to the city library to find out the true age of Chicago. City library! After all, it cannot be anything but Chicagoesque. His is the richest library, no doubt, as...

Disgusting cardboard it is!

An inappropriate attraction to your friend’s fiancé was grounds for disbarment from the Woman Club. Neither did it make a lick of sense. He was uncouth, uneducated, uncivilized. All of their conversations back then had...

She’s got a two year start on me.

I bet you think fellas are the ones to remember a girl — don’t you?”He shook his head hurriedly, that he’d always thought that.”Fellas have all the fun ‘n she just sees one right after...

I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.

The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills.

Well, nobody important,” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.

Big cities can have big hearts.

So, We’re really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago.

Chicago does not go to the world, the world comes to Chicago! Who needs New York? Who has taller buildings than our tall buildings? Who’s got a busier airport than our airport? You want Picasso?...

There seems to be a different Chicago around every street corner, behind every bar, and within every apartment, two-flat, cottage, or bungalow. City of immigrants or city of heartless plutocrats, say what you will, Chicago...

Use Jesus Motor Fuel—Put a savior in your tank!

There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true.

I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.

Why does death have to stop #love? It doesn’t stop people from voting in Chicago.

I was so glad to get out of the cotton patch and stop pickin’ cotton, I wouldn’t of cared who come by and said, ‘I’ll take you to Chicago.’

I’m just going to say her name,” he said.

That’s how they’re different.

His lips so soft, yet so stern, he pressed his mouth to mine. “I will have both of you,” he said. “My Sentinel and my city. And the GP will learn exactly how stubborn we...

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he’s Frank and in Chicago he’s Ernest.

and right now, if you don’t touch me in some very hot, very wet places, I might die.

No client comes to you when you’re twenty-five. It’s like when you are looking for a doctor. You don’t want the new one that just graduated. You don’t want the very old one, the one...

Leave the fireworks for those who cast no spark of their own.

New Rule: Don’t name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means...

I heard Mr. Ingersoll many years ago in Chicago. The hall seated 5,000 people; every inch of standing-room was also occupied; aisles and platform crowded to overflowing. He held that vast audience for three hours...

And then when I went to Chicago, that’s when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.

I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak.

I’m looking forward to going home and having cereal for dinner and walking Mitchell and studying a little and then going to sleep. I’ve had my ‘going out and having fun’ quota for the year,...

He pulled her toward him and gathered her in his arms as his hand lovingly cradled the back of her neck. She stopped breathing as he leaned down—ohmigod, the Adonis was about to kiss her—and...

Let me tell your something. I’m from Chicago. I don’t break.

A profound impression was created by the discourses of Professor GN Chakravarti and Mrs Besant, who is said to have risen to unusual heights of eloquence, so exhilarating were the influences of the gathering. Besides...

Things are more like they are now…than they have EVER been before!

You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to...

She leaned in, a tip she had read today on HuffPo’s Love & Sex section. Boobs out, smile wide, voice low. Being sexy was exhausting.