I taped my original audition for 'Fargo' with my agency in Chicago, Stewart Talent.

- Allison Tolman

I grew up in Cleveland and started doing plays in high school. And I went to the University of Illinois, and I majored in drama. And after school, I went up to Chicago, because I didn't really know anybody in New York or Los Angeles, and I knew people who were doing plays in Chicago.

- Alan Ruck

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.

- Alice Hamilton

You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.

- Ahmet Ertegun

Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.

- Aleksandar Hemon

One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.

- Abigail Washburn

I love Chicago.

- Abigail Breslin

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

- Augusten Burroughs

There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the posters were often more impressive than the bands.

- Andrew Bird

I moved to Chicago when I was 28, and I wasn't completely idealistic about going to Second City and making a living from comedy, but I knew it would be great for the resume.

- Allison Tolman

I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold.

- Amy Poehler

I originally wanted to stay in Chicago as long as I could. I love Chicago. I don't love L.A. I don't want to leave Chicago.

- Allison Tolman

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

I'm aware me getting a role out of Chicago as a complete unknown is an insane anomaly, so I knew I'd have to get out here to L.A. as soon as the door opened.

- Allison Tolman

In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!

- Aasif Mandvi

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

- Ashley Montagu

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.'

- America Ferrera

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

- Alexander Woollcott

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

- A. J. Liebling

My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.

- Andre Agassi