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The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.

I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back.

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

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

Chicago is my hometown and will always have a special place in my heart.

Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.

I love Chicago.