| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 26465 |
| QUOTATION: | [Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a world city, more European in some respects than American. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Gunther (19011970), U.S. journalist. Inside U.S.A., ch. 23, Harper (1947). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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