Without Chicago’s Hull House, We Might Not Have Improv Today

On-air wake for Second City legend Bernie Sahlins
On-air wake for Second City legend Bernie Sahlins

Without Chicago’s Hull House, We Might Not Have Improv Today

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Although improv comedy methods vary in locations across the country and the world, the idea of people standing up on a stage and making something out of nothing started right here in the Windy City. 

Sam Wasson is the author of Improv Nation: How We Made A Great American Art, and joins the Morning Shift to talk about the wide-ranging impact of improv and how it got its start in Chicago’s Hull House.