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I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

I was working with C. L. R. James; I believed in Marxist ideas about the labor and movement and the workers being the secret to the future. And I learned differently just by being in Detroit and being married to Jimmy Boggs.

I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.

I grew up in Chicago, but when I was 12, I came to New York because I was doing an episode of 'Law & Order.'

I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined.

I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.

What brought me to L.A. was work! I moved to Chicago after college - I went to Kalamazoo - did my nerd thing, graduated, and moved to Chicago to pursue improv.

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as an artist and an actor. In that sense, it had to have helped me.

I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.