Satan and Chicago

CHICAGO Satan (impatiently) to New Comer. The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous. - Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil--tell him to go to Chicago--it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive. - Snodgrass' Ride on the Railroad, 11/29/1856

Chicago Columbian Exposition 1894 painting by Theodore Robinson (1852-1896). Photo courtesy of Dave Thomson

Written by Mark Twain