When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.
Nelsan Ellis
EducationSchoolDesireChicagoArts
What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists.
Austan Goolsbee
AgeChicagoKindDisneylandKids
I had a teacher who recommended I take improv classes in Chicago - I'm from Evanston, Illinois - so I did improv classes at Improv Olympic, and that kind of opened me up.
Lauren Lapkus
TeacherMeChicagoKindUpImprov
Pinchas Perry, the director of 'The Chicago 8,' offered me the role of the judge, and he did not know that, 35 years earlier, I'd played a judge in the theater production. So life has its own little twists and turns.
Philip Baker Hall
LifeMeJudgeKnowChicagoDirector
There are so many talented actors in Chicago, I have to go see shows when I'm there. A lot of these actors, who I've seen when I'm in Chicago in theaters, are technically amazing and never have an opportunity to showcase it on a bigger medium.
Jacob Zachar
OpportunityAmazingGoChicagoNever
When I lived in Chicago, it often felt like the same people who were going to all the little theater companies were the people who were working in them.
Sean Gunn
PeopleChicagoSameLittleLived
When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning.
Kay Cannon
SchoolChicagoImprovDifferent
I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my parents moved to Winnetka, Illinois, an upper class, WASPy suburb where Jews - as well as Blacks and Catholics - were unwelcome on many blocks. I suffered the spiritual equivalent of whiplash.
Scott Turow
SpiritualParentsChicagoClassPark
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
Georg Solti
MusicSadLossChicagoBecomeNever
When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call 'the Chicago way.'
Thomas Frank
FearChicagoThugWayRightDisgust
I'm just happy to be sitting right here in Chicago and right here at U.S. Cellular Field, holding my Hall of Fame press conference. I'm proud of that.
Frank Thomas
HappyProudFameChicagoSitting
Chicago is a rough city. It made me raw.
Tink
CityMeChicagoRoughMadeRaw
You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.
Ahmet Ertegun
YouWhiteKnowChicagoJazzLike
It wasn't my intention ever to leave Chicago, that's for sure.
Richard House
IntentionChicagoLeaveSureEver
I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.
Edward Hirsch
PoetryWritingChicagoDesperation
I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's always been special.
Ryne Sandberg
MeProudThinkImportantChicago
I've been an 'Office' fan from day one. I knew Steve Carell in Chicago back in the day, so I started watching to support a Chicago guy and immediately got hooked on that show.
Jim O'Heir
DaySupportBackChicagoOfficeGuy
I was a bouncer when I was in DePaul in Chicago at the theater school. I threw drunks out of bars - unless I had a play running that weekend. But I only had two actual fights. Some were like out of old Westerns.
W. Earl Brown
SchoolWeekendPlayChicagoOldOut
In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.
Luther Allison
YouChicagoSideWestLifetimeGet
I try to stay away from carbs, but it can get cold in Chicago, and some sort of fettuccine Bolognese is right up my alley. That's why I try to get to the gym as much as possible!
Jesse Lee Soffer
ColdGymChicagoWhyPossibleTry
I love Chicago. I wouldn't be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn't have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I'd not lived in Chicago.
Tamron Hall
LoveConfidenceHopeI AmChicago
It took me forever to leave Chicago. I went to Columbia College because I wasn't ready to leave! My professors had to kick me in the pants to move to Los Angeles.
Lena Waithe
CollegeMeReadyLos AngelesChicago
I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.
Jeremy Piven
ChicagoActorStageJust
I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
Sammy Cahn
EasyNiceChicagoSayKindWrite
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