Quotable quotes from Chicago Journal's pages in 2009

12/30/2009 10:00 PM


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“It didn’t need my signature.”
— Ald. Robert Fioretti, testifying this summer about a sidewalk café permit the strike-embattled Congress Hotel applied for.


“But his testimony about those ‘concerns’ was nonsensical.”
— Judge Ronald Guzman, describing parts of Fioretti’s testimony during the Congress café trial this summer. Guzman ruled in favor the hotel.


“Does that mean you overpaid? I don’t know. You may have paid the right price when you bought it.”
— Thomas FitzGibbon, executive vice president at MB Financial Bank, talking about South Loop condo auctions where units sold for prices lower than during the boom years.


“All the damn shame to those cooks and chefs!”
— Dave Gupta describing his feelings about chefs who use powdered garlic instead of real cloves in their food. Gupta’s Chef Luciano restaurant is located on the edge of the South Loop.


“We want to sell them. They make money when they sell them.”
— Rolando Acosta, attorney for East Lake Management, trying to convince skeptical homeowners that East Lake wants to sell condo units in its Rockwell Gardens redevelopment. The firm will build an all-rental phase at Rockwell.


“No other city has this. You can’t replace it.”
— Grahm Balkany, leader in the Save Michael Reese Coalition, arguing for preservation of buildings on the Reese Hospital Campus co-designed by Walter Gropius.


“I struck a nerve with the name Felony Franks!”
— Jim Andrews, owner of the Felony Franks hot dog stand. Andrews has defended the controversial name, even in the face of critiques from Father Michael Pfleger, who accused Andrews of “pimping the very people you’re trying to help.”


“It was pretty much we were really bored one night.”
— Lizelle Din, on how the Aberdeen Street Dodgeball Ninja club was formed.


“I don’t know that we could do it.”
— Gary Pachuki, principal at IBT Group, on the future of the Sundance movie theater he hoped to bring to the West Loop.


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