Chicago Violence Quotes

How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Chicago.

Quote #1

CLUB OWNER: You're killing me here!

Chicago is full of cute double entendres, and this is the first. When the club owner tells Velma that she's killing him, he of course means it figuratively. He doesn't yet realize that Velma literally just killed her sister and her husband.

Quote #2

ROXIE: That was the night Velma Kelly plugged her husband and her sister.

Scandalous acts of violence become ways to tell time. In the world of Chicago, everyone knows where they were when Velma Kelly committed double homicide.

Quote #3

AMOS: I'm telling ya, it's the God's honest truth, my wife had nothing to do with it. She wouldn't hurt a worm—not even a worm.

Poor Amos doesn't realize—or want to realize—that his wife would kill a worm. Because if Fred Casely was anything, he was a human worm.