Obama's Weekend: Updated
UPDATED 6:44PM 11/23
POTUS-elect Obama arrived at 4:30 and entered home at 7436 Euclid Avenue in the Southshore neighborhood.
Neighbor Rev. Robert Woodridge said the well-maintained brick bungalow belongs to Michelle Obama's aunt.
"This is where she grew up," Woodridge said.
Woodridge did not live here when Michelle Obama lived here, he said.
UPDATED 6:27PM 11/23
For the basketball game, which was not vicinle to the pool, POTUS-elect wore gray sweatpants with a stripe along the leg, white sneakers, a black jacket and the weather worn Sox hat.
The University of Chicago Lab School is in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The school is a stone building with Gothic architecture. It looks very much like a cathedral. The grounds are surrounded by wrought iron fencing. A team of what appeard to be secret service agents entered through a different door.
There was a family (asporard to be grandparents, a mother and at least 1 child) at the playground equipment when the POTUS-elect arrived.
On the street outside the school, another family (two adult men and an adult woman) had a flat tire on their Toyota sedan. The family seemed startled when the presidential caravan rolled up. But it turned out to be to their benefit. Secret service agents assisted with the tire change.
By 4 PM, the sun had dipped below the horizon. POTUS-elect Obama left the gym at 4:20 and went to a home in 7400 block of Euclid Ave.
UPDATED 5:41PM 11/23
At 2:45 POTUS-elect Obama went to the University of Chicago Lab School to play basketball.
The weather in Chicago remains sunny and bright. It is about 41 degrees.
UPDATED 2:51PM 11/23
At 10:20 POTUS-elect Obama left gym and returned home.
At 9 am POTUS elect Obama traveled in a black SUV to the gym at Regents Park condos 5020-5050 S Lake Shore Drive. Potus elect was not visible to pool. Weather in Chicago this morning is bright, sunny, and cold.
UPDATED 12:58 A.M. 11/23
The Lincoln book was Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan.
The Pritzker home is in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.
The Obamas arrived at the Nesbitt home just blocks from their own at 9:17 and stayed until 11:18.
In the interim, a neighbor asked the press pool bus to pull forward as the bus was blocking the man from pulling his car into his driveway. The neighbor appeared annoyed about having to get out of his car into the 27-degree night air to have to ask the bus to move. The bus driver quickly obliged.
The Obamas' SUV pulled onto their block at 11:20 p.m. and a lid was declared.
UPDATED 11:55 P.M. 11/22
The Obamas left the Pritzker home at 8:53 p.m. Michelle Obama proceeded directly to the SUV while the president-elect walked over and shook hands with a dozen mostly teen or younger fans who had gathered outside to cheer him on.
Obama carried a hard-cover book on Abraham Lincoln. Both Obamas wore winter coats.
The Obamas are making their second social call of the night -- at the home of friend Marty Nesbitt.
***UPDATED*** 11:00PM 11/22
Still holding outside the Pritzkers'.
What's the vibe in this neighborhood that has a lot of high-priced homes such as the Pritzker's very large, very modern home with adjacent yard with art structures?
A neighbor across the street yelled at a secret service agent parked in her driveway, "Excuse me! You have to leave our driveway! I have to go to the Opera!"
To clarify the stop at the fire station: The motorcade found itself at the wrong end of Pritzker's one-way street and the driver wanted the least disruptive path to bring the multi-car motorcade around to the Pritzkers' home, an Obama press aide said.
A photographer captured the president-elect smiling broadly as he sat in the SUV in the fire station lot.
***UPDATED*** 10:45PM 11/22
After more than 7 hours at home, Obama's SUV pulled out at 5:48. He and his wife arrived at his friend and national finance chair Penny Pritzker's home for dinner at 6:26.
There was a slight delay as the motorcade made a wrong turn and stopped at a fire house a few blocks from Pritzker's house to figure the best way to get to the house.
Pool Report 1, Saturday, Nov. 22, From Abdon Pallasch of the Chicago Sun-Times
No news.
The 6 a.m. call time allowed poolers to glimpse the pre-dawn red sky above Lake Michigan as the press bus rolled down Lake Shore Drive toward President-elect Obama's house in Hyde Park/Kenwod.
At 9:02 a.m., Obama's SUV pulled out of his driveway bound for the Regents Park apartment complex where his friend and periodic campaign employee Mike Signator lives and where Obama worked out at the gym for 78 minutes from 9:07 to 10:25.
The temperature in the WIndy City is a colder-early-than -usual 27 degrees but Obama was presumably only outside long enough to go from door to car (the line of sight to the building's entrance is now blocked for security purposes) and only his White Sox capped head was visible in the SUV.
His SUV pulled back onto his home street by 10:30 and we are holding nearby.
Loading comments…
Huffington Post
First Posted: 11-22-08 05:48 PM | Updated: 12-23-08 05:12 AM