That's the essence of Eurovision - bringing all these different people together, but to see all this diversity in my hometown is unbelievable.

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My hometown is Peoria.

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My hometown of Columbus is a good example.

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This is my hometown festival in some ways, and I only get nervous performing when I know people in the audience.

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My hometown suggests that urbanization is a spent force.

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As a person who is almost always on the road and separated (often on the other side of the planet) from my closest friends and family, my Facebook news feed is like the local newspaper in my hometown.

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Ms. DICKINSON: Years ago, I interviewed the dean at Cornell University, which is near my hometown, and we had a really long talk about this.

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In my hometown of Chicago, the population is at least one-third made up of people of Mexican heritage.

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Todd is from my new hometown right here in Washington, D.

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My favourite beer is the Jenlain, mixed a few kilometers from my hometown.

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As Chrysler figured, it could even be grit, as is the case with my hometown.

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And since it ended in a tie, we are exchanging -- and paying off our debts at the same time -- this is Goose Island 312 beer from my hometown of Chicago.

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It is a great pleasure to welcome President Karzai to my hometown of Chicago after he extended hospitality to me during my visit to to Kabul recently.

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And as the Pritzkers and so many others here can attest, if you love architecture there are few better places to live than in my hometown of Chicago. (Applause.) It is the birthplace of the skyscraper -- a city filled with buildings and public spaces designed by architects like Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry, who is here tonight.

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The narrative is about the hidden greatness in my sister's ordinary life and our sleepy hometown, most of which I hadn't been able to see until Ruthie began to die of cancer.

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There she is, over there. (Applause.) She's from my hometown, Chicago. (Applause.) Yay for Chicago.

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