I live and die with the Chicago Cubs.

Don’t you think most of those kids think too much about who got an A or a B when they were in law school and what that means to an inflated G.P.A. and not enough...

She should pull away, even though she had begged for it with her smart mouth. She should punish him for every crime he’d perpetrated. For being too good-looking, too sexy, too everything. But the kiss...

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.