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Brendan Hunt making most of return to Chicago
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Actor and comedian Brendan Hunt is making the most of his return to Chicago.
What's happening: The Kenwood Academy grad and "Ted Lasso" star is back onstage with his one-man show, "The Movement You Need," at Steppenwolf, running through Sunday.
State of play: Hunt, who spent his formative years in Chicago's improv scene before moving to Los Angeles, has been making the local media rounds across TV, radio and various press interviews.
- Over the weekend, he watched a Chicago Stars FC match in Evanston, attended a game at Wrigley Field alongside fellow "Lasso" star Jason Sudeikis, and on Monday night, threw out the first pitch at the Friendly Confines.
What they're saying: "Doing the show in Chicago is incredible and beautiful because I'm walking the streets that made the people that the show is about," Hunt tells Axios.
- "It's also terrible and awful because I am confronted with the realization that part of why the people in the show ended up the way they ended up is because it's 40 fucking degrees in May."
The bottom line: If you're going to come home, this is how you do it.