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I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.
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chicago
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Erik Larson |
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Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just to help us all appreciate the good stuff.
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good-stuff
architecture
chicago
appreciation
value
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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"I heard Mr. 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 so completely entranced that when he left the platform no one moved, until suddenly, with loud cheers and applause, they recalled him. He returned smiling and said: 'I'm glad you called me back, as I have something more to say. Can you stand another half-hour?' 'Yes: an hour, two hours, all night,' was shouted from various parts of the house; and he talked on until midnight, with unabated vigor, to the delight of his audience. This was the greatest triumph of oratory I had ever witnessed. It was the first time he delivered his matchless speech, 'The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child'. I have heard the greatest orators of this century in England and America; O'Connell in his palmiest days, on the Home Rule question; Gladstone and John Bright in the House of Commons; Spurgeon, James and Stopford Brooke, in their respective pulpits; our own Wendell Phillips, Henry Ward Beecher, and Webster and Clay, on great occasions; the stirring eloquence of our anti-slavery orators, both in Congress and on the platform, but none of them ever equalled in his highest flights.
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equality
america
liberty-of-man-woman-and-child
matchless
oratory
triumph
ingersoll
robert-g-ingersoll
robert-green-ingersoll
robert-ingersoll
chicago
praise
england
rights
smile
respect
honor
speech
delight
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
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"An artist, he paints with lakes and wooded slopes, with lawns and banks and forest-covered hills." -- Daniel Burnham talking about Frederick Law Olmstead"
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daniel-burnham
frederick-law-olmstead
landscape-architecture
chicago
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Erik Larson |
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Leon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that someone whose blood was clearly half pork grease had made it to age seventy-five.
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amazed
leon
seventy-five
tick
pork
made
grease
chicago
blood
fat
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John Scalzi |
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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 of touting your own personal hobbies. At least that's what I've always taught my kids, Panama Red and Jacuzzi.
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names
humor
bad-decisions
baseball
chicago
chicago-cubs
naming
sports-fans
parenting
parents
children
sports
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Bill Maher |
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Kids in North Lawndale need not be confused about their prospects: Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center sits directly adjacent to the neighborhood.
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institutionalized-racism
reparations
chicago
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |