(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.
The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a city sky. The rush of city waters, beneath the city streets. The passionate passing of the night's last El.
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.