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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
J. B. Pritzker
Best
Technology
Focused
Possible
Entrepreneurs
Making
Chicago
Place
The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
J. B. Pritzker
Success
Better
Will
More
Entrepreneurs
Venture
Around
Chicago
Capitalists
Companies
Activity
Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
Jack Adams
Hundred
Arizona
Saddened
Look
Couple
Yards
Chicago
Buoy
Her
On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.
Jack Adams
Carrier
About
Hawaiian
Force
Around
Island
Islands
Built
Led
Chicago
Western
End
Task
Task Force
December
Midway
Harbor
Miles
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
Lexington
I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
Jack Steinberger
Army
Few
Wave
Months
Introduction
Given
Joined
Course
MIT
Chicago
Laboratory
After
Sent
Personnel
Radiation
Theory
Special
Electromagnetic
University
It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably it was a gradual process. The first time the matter was brought to my attention in a concrete form, however, was when Charles Murphy was selling out his controlling interest in the Chicago Cubs.
Jacob Ruppert
Time
Me
Impossible
Matter
First
Controlling
Say
Out
Would
Would-Be
Charles
Brought
Attention
Idea
First Time
Cubs
Becoming
Concrete
Came
However
His
Chicago
Chicago Cubs
Selling
Gradual
Owner
Form
Process
Interest
Murphy
In Chicago, I'd audition 3-4 times a week, but when I got out to L.A., there were, like, 4-5 a day, and my skin got really thick.
Jacob Zachar
Day
Skin
Out
Week
Like
Got
Audition
Were
Chicago
Times
Really
Thick
There are so many talented actors in Chicago, I have to go see shows when I'm there. A lot of these actors, who I've seen when I'm in Chicago in theaters, are technically amazing and never have an opportunity to showcase it on a bigger medium.
Jacob Zachar
Opportunity
Amazing
Technically
Seen
Medium
See
Never
Talented
Talented Actors
Go
Lot
Chicago
Bigger
Theaters
Showcase
Who
Many
Shows
Actor
Chicago is home for me.
Jahlil Okafor
Home
Me
Chicago
There's a lot of pride I have coming from Chicago because so many great players have done so many great things in the league. I definitely want to keep that tradition going. So yeah, I want to represent Chicago in the best light possible.
Jahlil Okafor
Best
Great
Pride
Light
Great Things
Definitely
Possible
League
Because
Yeah
Coming
Tradition
Lot
Chicago
Done
Going
Represent
Want
Many
Keep
Things
Players
I think, yeah, Chicago is the best basketball city in America.
Jahlil Okafor
Best
Think
City
Yeah
Chicago
America
Basketball
Being from Chicago, an inner-city kid, I'm fortunate enough now to be able to help the kids here when I come back, when I'm in town.
Jahlil Okafor
Enough
Back
Kid
Kids
Able
Town
Come
Chicago
Being
Fortunate
Help
Now
Here
I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.
Jake Johnson
You
Comedy
Pure
More
Scene
Feel
Like
Audience
Doing
Chicago
Where
Showcase
Actually
I wanted to be a second baseman for the Chicago Cubs. Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish.
Jake Johnson
Problem
Mind
Athletic
Ability
Greater
Cubs
Accomplish
Chicago
Chicago Cubs
Than
Wanted
Body
Baseman
Second
While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time.
James Cronin
Time
Physics
Field
About
Given
Developing
New
Particle
Ideas
Course
Stimulated
His
Chicago
While
Interest
Strangeness
Who
Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.
James Cronin
Christmas
Family
Our
Summer
Chicago
Aspen
Whole
I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for bird-watching, and when the snow or the rain kept me indoors, I read his bird books and learned about evolution.
James D. Watson
Me
Rain
Passion
Father
Bird
First
Books
Evolution
Charles
About
Darwin
Had
Indoors
Schoolboy
Read
Learned
Became
Still
His
Chicago
Up
Snow
While
Growing
Growing Up
Aware
Kept
Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas.
James Heckman
Reading
Frank
Papers
System
Exciting
Ideas
Encourages
Chicago
Itself
Close
Discussions
Place
Which
Workshop
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.
James Iha
Chicago
Up
Grew
Suburbs
One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell's unknown and untranslated dissertation, 'Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen,' buried in the dusty stacks of Chicago's old Harper Library.
James M. Buchanan
Library
Old
Dissertation
Unknown
Exciting
Most
Discovery
Intellectual
Chicago
Dusty
Buried
Moments
Career
The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.
James Young
Studio
Still
Mix
Chicago
So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago.
James Young
Secondary
Chicago
Really
Base
Based
I actually didn't grow up in a household that loved Chinese food particularly, and it's not really my go-to food or anything... We were more a pizza family, being from the Chicago area and all.
Jami Attenberg
Food
Family
More
Area
Particularly
Household
Were
Chicago
Up
Being
Anything
Loved
Pizza
Chinese
Chinese Food
Really
Grow
Grow Up
Actually
When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French fried onion loaf. I probably haven't been to one in 25 years, and yet, I once saw Donald Trump from behind in an office building and the first thing that flashed in my mind was his hair looked like that onion loaf.
Jami Attenberg
Family
Mind
Hair
First
Building
Local
Once
Saw
Onion
Like
Looked
French
First Thing
Go
Been
His
Years
Trump
Fried
Chicago
Up
Office
Donald
Donald Trump
Behind
The First Thing
Used
Chain
Growing
Growing Up
Thing
Loaf
I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam.
Jamila Woods
People
First
Looking
Met
Band
Young
Our
Collaborate
Poetry
Through
Were
Chicago
Authors
Working
Slam
Album
Chance
The beach is still a public place, and that's an amazing grace about Chicago. We have so many problems, but the water always stays. That inspires me and keeps me inspired about the city and keeps me hopeful.
Jamila Woods
Me
Grace
Water
Amazing
Problems
Hopeful
City
Stays
About
Beach
Inspired
Inspires
Always
Still
Chicago
Place
Public
Many
Keeps
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