An Evening with Christopher Jackson

Christopher Jackson is best known as the Tony nominated actor and Emmy and Grammy winning songwriter/composer who portrayed President George Washington in the original Broadway cast of Hamilton and Chester "Chunk" Palmer on the CBS-TV hit drama Bull.

But did you know Christopher Jackson was born in Metropolis, Illinois and grew up in Cairo, Illinois?

Fellow Cairoite and former NPR Radio National Health Correspondent Rachel Jones will join Christopher to moderate a wide ranging conversation that will share how that sense of home in Cairo helped to foster and encourage his talents that would ultimately lead to fame.