"I don't know what hell is but it ain't worse than Chicago."

"Why stay in Chicago; what did the town have to justify its existence? One decent boulevard, one decent suburb to the …"

"It's every man for himself in this hired air. / Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll neve…"

"An October sort of city even in spring."

"This is virgin territory out here for whorehouses."

"Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like all other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitat…"

"They have the time The time or their life I saw a man He danced with his wife In Chicago, my home town."

"I have struck a city — a real city — and they call it Chicago… Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it agai…"

"Cities like London, New York, Berlin, Paris, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, or Glasgow are high spots of slavery in co…"

"Chicago's Greektown was adjacent to Hull House, Jane Addams' famed settlement project, whose activities played an imp…"