Quotes by Pat Colander

“In Chicago, we may not think the Picasso presiding over the Richard J. Daley Center plaza is art, but we know its a big Picasso and its the citys Picasso, and when the Cubs made the play-offs, the sculpture wore a baseball cap just like everything else.”

“Nor is it out of character that Chicagos grandest achievement- a largely manmade arc of lakefront parks and beaches - began as a mistake. from waste thrown into Lake Michigan a 75-year-old dump.”

“Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together. If the city was unhappy with itself yesterday-and invariably it was-it will reinvent itself today.”

“Big plans, elaborate schemes and grand designs sort of messily bleeding into one another [have] created Chicagos reputation for rawness. But that rawness is just ambition-sometimes ambition run amuck-that has acquired a life of its own.”

“Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together.”