{"quotes":[{"text":"You should seriously get a job planning dates for The Bachelor.","author":"Nicki Elson","tags":["boat","chicago","contemporary-romance","date","datenight","funny","love","romance"],"id":9841,"author_id":"Nicki+Elson"},{"text":"McDonald, who was known to hate policemen, was once approached by two cops for a two-dollar donation. “We’re burying a policeman,” one of them said, to which Mike responded, “Here’s ten dollars. Bury five of them.","author":"Gus Russo","tags":["chicago","humorous","police"],"id":17779,"author_id":"Gus+Russo"},{"text":"She loves swimming,” said Ellen, who I knew had been a competitive swimmer in college. Ellen looked in the rearview mirror at Kara.“Don’t you Kara?” asked Ellen.There was no response.\t“I didn’t start until I was three,” said Ellen. “She’s got a two year start on me.","author":"Daniel Amory","tags":["chicago","summer","swimming"],"id":21155,"author_id":"Daniel+Amory"},{"text":"Chicago does not go to the world, the world comes to Chicago! Who needs New York? Who has taller buildings than our tall buildings? Who's got a busier airport than our airport? You want Picasso? We got Picasso, big Picasso. Nobody can make heads or tails of it. It's a lion? No, a seahorse. Looks to me like a radiator with wings. Who gives a damn, people, a Picasso's a Picasso.","author":"Peter Orner","tags":["chicago","city","picasso"],"id":30955,"author_id":"Peter+Orner"},{"text":"Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money?” asked a nearby man in a white shirt to another man in a striped shirt. I waited for the answer as I slowly walked past them. “Why is it an either or question?” the man in the striped shirt finally murmured philosophically under a sip of beer. They both stood there looking at each other in thought.","author":"Daniel Amory","tags":["chicago","city","downtown","dream","lake","law-school","life","party","philosophy","students","summer"],"id":39845,"author_id":"Daniel+Amory"},{"text":"Things are more like they are now...Than they have EVER been before!","author":"Uncle Arnie Mamath","tags":["arnie","arnold","cec","chicago","florida","illinois","lagrange","mamath","poetry","reality","true","uncle","wisconsin","wisdom","wise-man"],"id":56975,"author_id":"Uncle+Arnie+Mamath"},{"text":"I remember when I was twenty-five,” he said. “No client comes to you when you’re twenty-five. It’s like when you are looking for a doctor. You don’t want the new one that just graduated. You don’t want the very old one, the one shaking, the one twenty years past his prime. You want the seasoned one who has done it so many times he can do it in his sleep though. Same thing with attorneys.","author":"Daniel Amory","tags":["adventure","attorney","chicago","city","downtown","dream","dreams","economy","fiction","job","law-student","lawyer","school","summer","ya","young-adult","young-adult-fiction","youth"],"id":57043,"author_id":"Daniel+Amory"},{"text":"Shortly before school started, I moved into a studio apartment on a quiet street near the bustle of the downtown in one of the most self-conscious bends of the world. The “Gold Coast” was a neighborhood that stretched five blocks along the lake in a sliver of land just south of Lincoln Park and north of River North. The streets were like fine necklaces and strung together were the brownstone houses and tall condominiums and tiny mansions like pearls, and when the day broke and the sun faded away, their lights burned like jewels shining gaudily in the night. The world’s most elegant bazaar, Michigan Avenue, jutted out from its eastern tip near The Drake Hotel and the timeless blue-green waters of Lake Michigan pressed its shores. The fractious make-up of the people that inhabited it, the flat squareness of its parks and the hint of the lake at the ends of its tree-lined streets squeezed together a domesticated cesspool of age and wealth and standing. It was a place one could readily dress up for an expensive dinner at one of the fashionable restaurants or have a drink miles high in the lounge of the looming John Hancock Building and five minutes later be out walking on the beach with pants cuffed and feet in the cool water at the lake’s edge.","author":"Daniel Amory","tags":["chicago","city","contemporary-fiction","contemporary-literature","downtown","lake","neighborhood","school","summer"],"id":58460,"author_id":"Daniel+Amory"},{"text":"Actually, they fought to fill the emptiness of their lives as they filled their empty glasses. They fought—not because the liquor was in them, but because it did not fill them enough.","author":"Nelson Algren","tags":["chicago","drinking","emptiness","fighting"],"id":60715,"author_id":"Nelson+Algren"},{"text":"What are you thinking?” he asked in a disarmingly gentle tone.“That the city looks different depending on whom I’m seeing it with.”He nodded easily, as if this same thought had occurred to him. “I notice different things,” I continued. “Like with you, I pay more attention to the details of the buildings – the textures, the colors, the people standing in front of them. The reflections are different.”“Reflections?” he asked quietly.“They are.” I watched our bodies morph and distort in the window of an empty bank. “You’re there,” I said. “That’s how they’re different.","author":"Jessica Hawkins","tags":["architecture","chicago","city","romance","the-cityscape-series"],"id":70785,"author_id":"Jessica+Hawkins"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":75,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}