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"“A fetching, candid reconnoiter of the psychological and spiritual contours of a fertile, challenging mindscape.… These forays are evocative analogues of Crichton’s sometimes turbulent inner evolution over the last twenty-five years.… Just the ticket for those who would escape, for once, to themselves—and perhaps know risk for the first time.” —Chicago Sun-Times"

"Did you hear that Jimmy Lowell got whacked?' 'I heard something.' 'It was in Paradise City, near Chicago,' said the boss."

"Chuck Campbell, Sport Magazine, Chicago.' Fate shook the reporter’s hand and told him his name and the name of the magazine he worked for."

"I really learn the bookselling business when I become an assistant manager, but by then Barnes & Noble and Borders stores are opening all over Chicago and it doesn’t look like the independent bookstore is going to survive."

"They had no idea I was actually taking the train from Indianapolis to Chicago. Alone. My destination was always the same."

"I was a partner of a venture firm based in Chicago, and I believed the internet was going to change the world. The other partners told me that this was just another wave of technology and it soon would be gone. And I said, 'I disagree. Bye-bye. I’m going out to Silicon Valley."

"Born in 1942 in Chicago"

"Maurice, a Chicago orang, became intensely neurotic, developing phobias that halted work in 1977."

"All over. New York, Washington, Seattle, Chicago . . . all over."

"“It’ll start in nine weeks. Test run in Chicago and the Twin Cities, associated focus groups, any modifications, then the national break in July.”"

"…after two grueling years of residency in emergency medicine at Michael Reese in Chicago."

"No, she's marrying a nice doctor in Chicago sometime next year."

"Evans said, “I heard you were in North Dakota and Chicago.”"

"ABOUT THE AUTHOR MICHAEL CRICHTON was born in Chicago in 1942."

"Chicago, referenced in entry 14 (University of Chicago Press)."

"He had a wife in Moline, Illinois and a son at the University of Chicago."

"Susan was barely to Chicago before she scribbled her first postcard."

"She would not let Conrad send a telegram from Chicago to announce her arrival, because she did not want to make her father or John Grant spend a night in Poughkeepsie to meet her late train."

"In Chicago, Ferd Ward and Mr. Grant took her to a banquet honoring General Grant, and she capped her social season by shaking that conquering hand and looking into those sad, streaked eyes."

"From July 2 until the end of September 1890 there is only one brief note mailed between trains in the Chicago station."

"In 1886 the big packinghouse strike broke out in Chicago and Adam’s regiment entrained, but the strike was settled before they were needed."

"“Just call me Joe,” he said. “I ought to know it. Went to automobile school in Chicago. That’s a real school—not like no college.”"

"In Chicago there developed a confusion of orders—no one’s fault—just one of those things that happen, and Adam’s six cars of lettuce stood in the yard for five more days."

"with her well-dressed Chicago fiancé, a very handsome man."

"When summer was ending, I migrated to Chicago, quickly finding its own Times Square."

"And wounded Chicago streets."

"…is the goodbye Greyhound station, where I arrived from Chicago one weepy day in September, welcomed by banner headlines warning of a female hurricane…"

"Unfairly, I’m almost broke—$20.00 when I left Chicago, and one phone number what said nervously we must have lunch sometime."

"Now it will be Chicago—that savage city like a black fortress erected against the blue of the sky, the blue of the lake."

"In Chicago, along Clark Street. In the Square—as they huddle indolently in the frozen night for a car to stop and someone to ask if you want a Ride—that call will whisper to the outcasts like wind from the deserted concrete lake. Along Division Street."

"That night in Chicago, walking along the lake, when I felt myself exploding with love—but it was something else, something that was closer to pity..."

"Or in the park in Chicago, also waiting...."

"…from those other places they had learned to call home—Iowa, Chicago, Massachusetts."

"We know Thursby was Monahan's bodyguard and went with him when Monahan found it wise to vanish from Chicago."

"I can't understand these Negro men marrying these white tramps,' she said. 'Chicago's full of it. Just as soon as some Negro man starts to getting a little success he runs and marries a white woman. No decent self-respecting Negro man would marry one of those white tramps these Negroes marry."

"All these riots in Detroit and New York and Chicago—it come from all this mixing up."

"cornered off the finest coloured chick west of Chicago—to my way of thinking."

"“A Chicago overcoat is what it would get you, little man.”"

"It'sspreadingagain.Itwasontheeastcoast.Nowit's in Cih cago. The reportssay that it maeks watching a firebetter than sex. I don't kwnwo hetherthereportersarecondemningitoradvertisingit."

"There’d be none of the head rush Jean Baptiste Point du Sable and William Overton must’ve felt when they planted their flags in Chicago and Portland."

"… If you wanted comfort, you could have stayed in Chicago."

"…SHERIFF (back to Martin): 'Chicago’s a long way off, fella. Thousand miles and more … I hear they got a building in Chicago that’s five stories high. That right?' MARTIN: 'Yeah."

"…Charley Davenport, grumpy, rumpled, and already overweight at thirty. …He had worked under John Holland in Chicago and Doyne Farmer at Los Alamos."

"We eventually sorted a complex nodal North America—Toronto, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Montreal—with spines to both American coasts, as well as England, France, and Germany."

"The day before that he was in Chicago."

"to Dr. B. Laufer, of Chicago, to Sir Richard Temple, and to Prof. Paul Pelliot, of the College de France, Paris"

"deserted the smug prosperity of Kansas City and Chicago and Peoria"

"He arrived in Chicago, and there, for no reason, rented a furnished room for a week, stayed in it for two days, went to Buffalo, changed his mind, and moved to Niagara Falls."

"I was in Chicago, man, and I was going down to the A.C. on Thirty-fifth Street, learning how to duke."

"The following November I traveled from Montana back to the Chicago area, mainly for one reason: So that I could more safely attempt to murder a scientist, businessman, or the like."

"Chicago has the Hawk, and Dickens, despite its newly painted barrier, has the Stank, an eye‐burning, colorless miasma of sulfur and shit birthed in the Wilmington oil refineries and the Long Beach sewage treatment plant."