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

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

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