To me, I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and my identity is of a suburban Chicago person. It's not like, 'Oh, I'm Indian.' I'm not. I'm American.
Jay Chandrasekhar
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I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.
Chance The Rapper
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There a great ethnic cuisine available to you in Chicago.
Jose Garces
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I used to watch a lot of American and British television as a child, which helped teach me the language and accents; it was partly that which landed me the part of Roxy in a London production of 'Chicago' when I was 25.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
ChildMeLanguageAmericanChicago
I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston.
Dennis Eckersley
GreatCityTeamChicagoNeverRoof
In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.
Bill Dedman
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I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.
Douglas Wood
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It really wasn't about picking Chicago. I feel like Chicago picked me.
Alex Weisman
MeFeelChicagoI Feel LikeLike
I love Chicago. I think it's an amazing city.
Christen Press
LoveCityAmazingThinkChicago
David Cromer, from Chicago, I think is the most gifted young director in America.
Terry Teachout
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I was Miss Chicago in 1946.
Cloris Leachman
ChicagoMiss
I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.
Sarah Bernhardt
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I grew up three and a half hours outside of Chicago, but people would call me a 'hick' or 'country boy.' Maybe it's because I talked with more of a country accent.
Brett Eldredge
PeopleMeCountryChicagoThreeBoy
I had worked for ten years in theater; I had worked at Second City in Chicago. Then I got to Hollywood, and I was like, naively, 'Where's my pilot?'
Nia Vardalos
CityChicagoPilotHollywoodYears
I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you're poking fun at someone or something, there's still an affection for it.
Bob Newhart
HumorFunThinkSomeoneYouChicago
I make no promises every book will be about Chicago, but it's so inspiring. It's a city of such contradictions. I love to write about it.
Marcus Sakey
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I did a lot of commercial and theater work when I got out of school and was living in Dallas, and I moved to Chicago to go through the Second City Conservatory Program.
Allison Tolman
WorkSchoolCityGoChicagoLiving
Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.
James Belushi
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Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.
Susan Glaspell
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I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.
Jake Johnson
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I was the music director at a dinner theater called the 'Pheasant Run Theater' in the suburbs of Chicago, and that was my side gig while I acted.
Sean Hayes
MusicDinnerChicagoRunDirector
Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world.
Katherine Dunham
TalentPeopleWorldCountryChicago
People drive everywhere in L.A., so you get very little human interaction... but N.Y. and Chicago are like London... L.A. lacks the social interaction.
Seal
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I've been lucky to conduct the very best orchestras in the world: New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin, the London Philharmonic.
Itzhak Perlman
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