Barack Obama Chicago

Obama Praises Chicago As NATO Summit's Host City

AP | Posted 05.21.2012

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CHICAGO -- President Barack Obama has praised Chicago officials and residents for their handling of the NATO summit. Obama spoke about the city durin...

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Obama Talks Birthers, The Future & Rahm's 'Creepy' Finger In Chicago

The Huffington Post/AP | Posted 06.15.2011

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President Obama received a warm welcome in Chicago Thursday, where he addressed supporters at three fundraisers around the city. First, the presiden...

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Barack Obama Looks Back Home Again With 2012 In Sight

AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 06.10.2011

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CHICAGO — President Barack Obama's relationship with his hometown may be best described as a long-distance love affair. He lavishes attention on...

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Obama Security Price Tag: Chicago Owed $1.58M

Posted 05.25.2011

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The City of Chicago has spent more than $3.5 million on presidential security since November of 2008--and though the services are reimbursed by the fe...

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In Chicago, 'Everything Stops' For Obama Inauguration

AP | Don Babwin | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Ninety-year-old Timuel Black says he all but lost hope for the country when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert Kennedy were as...

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Obama's Hyde Park

New York Times | Michael Y. Park | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hyde Park hasn't gotten this much attention since 1893, when the Chicago World's Fair introduced the country to electricity and serial killers. But in...

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Obama Says No Extra Help For Chicago Friends (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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President-elect Barack Obama indicated Tuesday that his friends in Chicago and Springfield shouldn't expect special treatment for their debt-ridden g...

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Has Obama Eclipsed Oprah?

New York Times | Jeff Zeleny | Posted 05.25.2011

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SO long, Crawford, Tex. Even before President-elect Barack Obama takes office in 61 days, effectively crowning Chicago as the site of the Western Whi...

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President Obama: Chicago Aldermen Come Knocking

Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 05.25.2011

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After the appropriate nod to the history made by Barack Obama's presidential election, Chicago aldermen quickly got to the bottom-line, City Hall styl...

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New Obama Keating Five movie

Alison Teal | Posted 05.25.2011

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Voters in swing states -- and this, Colorado, appears to be the mother of all swing states -- are treated to a nearly endless barrage of political advertising and discussion.

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How Chicago Shaped Obama

New Yorker | Posted 05.25.2011

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One day in 1995, Barack Obama went to see his alderman, an influential politician named Toni Preckwinkle, on Chicago's South Side, where politics had ...

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Obama Left Community Organizing To Make "Large Scale Change"

NY Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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The year was 1985 and Gerald Kellman, a community organizer, was interviewing an applicant named Barack Obama to work in the demoralized landscape of ...

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Obama Was In Chicago The Morning Of Controversial Sermon

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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A bit of campaign controversy broke out Monday morning, after Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign and members of the media pointed to a serious ...

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The Rezko Connection: Obama's Achilles Heel?

ABC's The Blotter | Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

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In sharp contrast to his tough talk about ethics reform in government, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., approached a well-known Illinois political fixer und...

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