Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 4861, a resolution to name the Post Office at 1343 West Irving Park Road after Steve Goodman. Steve Goodman was a true Chicagoan, a legendary folk singer and songwriter and a faithful Cubs fan. Sadly, Goodman succumbed to leukemia in 1984 at the young age of 36 after a courageous 15-year battle with the disease. Over the course of his illness, Goodman wrote some of the most enduring American folk songs, including ``The City of New Orleans,'' for which he won one of his two Grammy awards, and the great Chicago tune ``Lincoln Park Pirates.'' Goodman's career was inexorably intertwined with Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music, where he learned his craft and and befriended folk music luminaries such as Roger McGuinn of the Byrds, Bob Gibson, Bonnie Koloc, and John Prine. While older Goodman fans are no doubt aware of his connection to the Cubs, best exemplified by his song ``A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request,'' in recent years younger generations have come to know Steve Goodman as the writer and performer of ``Go, Cubs, Go,'' the anthem played at Wrigley Field following Cubs' wins. Steve's spirit lives on after every Cubs home win, as thousands of fans happily head home from Wrigley singing, ``Go Cubs, Go . . . '' With the passage of this legislation, it's possible that the strains of this happy tune will be heard on the steps of the Steve Goodman Post Office, not a mile up Clark Street from Wrigley Field.…”