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The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions, and even through their unity, spawn true American greatness.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.

I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.

What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.

I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.

My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.