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Obama's Best Hometown Moments: A Look Back One Year Later (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.04.2009 | Chicago

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As part of HuffPost's One Year Later series, we're looking back at the significant events since Obama was elected. Though November 4, 2008, permanent...

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Obama's Chicago Home Losing Police Protection

Huffington Post | Posted 09.23.2009 | Chicago

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The Chicago Police Department is pulling its overtime detail that guards President Barack Obama's Kenwood home on Oct. 1, department officials announc...

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Michelle Obama On Chicago Olympics: Emotional Pitch Planned, "There Won't Be A Dry Eye"

Bloomberg.com | John McCormick | Posted 09.18.2009 | Chicago

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A top White House adviser said first lady Michelle Obama is planning to make a dramatic presentation when she offers the closing argument for the bid...

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Jarrett: Chicago-Staffed White House Not The City's '51st Ward'

Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 08.25.2009 | Chicago

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In Washington, the relationships among the key players in government are subject to speculation and fascination over whether there is a "Chicago way" ...

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DNC Fundraiser Bringing Obama Back To Chicago

Chicago Tribune | John McCormick | Posted 08.02.2009 | Chicago

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President Barack Obama is expected to visit Chicago on July 23 -- his third trip here since his Jan. 20 inauguration -- when he is scheduled to attend...

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Camp David Trumping Hyde Park For Obama

Politico | Posted 06.25.2009 | Chicago

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It was hard to leave. He teared up. He promised to return at least every couple of months. He left his car parked in the driveway. But he was moving o...

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Obama's Sunday: Basketball At University Of Chicago, Haircut In Hyde Park

AP | Posted 03.18.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — President Barack Obama dropped by the University of Chicago campus Sunday for two hours of basketball with friends. Obama, who's spen...

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Obama Family's First Air Force One Trip Departs For Chicago (SLIDESHOW)

The Huffington Post | Posted 03.16.2009 | Style

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The Obamas boarded Air Force One for the first time together on Friday afternoon en route to Chicago. The family plans to spend the long holiday weeke...

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Obama: Illinois Ready To Move Forward After Blagojevich

AP | Posted 03.16.2009 | Chicago

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - President Barack Obama says Illinois is ready to move forward now that Rod Blagojevich has been removed as governor. In an interv...

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Obamas Return To Chicago For Valentine's Day, Long Weekend

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 03.16.2009 | Style

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CHICAGO — Love and hoops topped the agenda for President Barack Obama this weekend. Obama, his wife, Michelle, and daughters arrived in Chicago...

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Obamas Planning Weekend, Valentine's Day In Chicago

AP | Posted 03.09.2009 | Chicago

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President Barack Obama will be heading home to Chicago for the first time since he took office. Spokesman Robert Gibbs says the president and first l...

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If Obama Came to Chicago

Edward Lifson | Posted 03.06.2009 | Chicago

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Edward Lifson

We ought to change the name of the Charles Lindbergh Beacon atop the Palmolive Building to the Obama Light.

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Sam Kass, Chef Will Follow Obamas To The White House

The Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

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Sam Kass, the Obamas' personal chef from Chicago, will continue his culinary services for the First Family in the White House. However, Kass will not...

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In Chicago, 'Everything Stops' For Obama Inauguration

AP | Don Babwin | Posted 02.17.2009 | Chicago

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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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Accountability in the Obama Administration

Mike Smith | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics

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Mike Smith

If Obama had addressed concerns regarding his financial relationship with Blagojevich directly, his "Honest Ob'" reputation wouldn't be at risk at all.

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Obama Sightings Lose Luster For Chicagoans

Politico | Jonathan Martin | Posted 01.15.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO--John McCain called him "the biggest celebrity in the world," but Barack Obama's appearance outside the Regents Park Luxury Apartments on a fr...

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The New Kennebunkport: Obama To Retreat To Chicago During Breaks

AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 01.14.2009 | Style

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CHICAGO — When President-elect Barack Obama heads home for a break from the White House, he won't go to a sprawling ranch or private seaside com...

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How to Get a Job with the Obama Administration

Mike Smith | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

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Mike Smith

Howard Dean or even Terry McAuliffe who told me in jest at Virginia's Democratic Victory Party that I could be Secretary of Commerce!

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Tourism Business Booming In Obama's Chicago

ABC News | MATTHEW JAFFE | Posted 12.30.2008 | Chicago

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Despite the cold weather and biting wind, out-of-town guests, as usual, on Thanksgiving weekend, are hitting the sites in Chicago, America's third-lar...

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Obama Attends Funeral For Friend's Relative In Chicago

AP | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics

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CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama on Friday attended a funeral for a friend's relative. The service was for a family member of Eric Whitak...

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Anxiously Awaiting Obama

James Warren | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics

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James Warren

The President-elect knows that we've heard a lot of promises from the current management and are left totally wanting. We're desperately seeking direction and will cut him no small amount of slack.

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Will President Obama Help The South Side?

Chicago Public Radio | Natalie Moore | Posted 12.31.2008 | Chicago

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Now that the president-elect hails from the South Side of Chicago, residents are curious to see if the identity and cache of this part of the city wil...

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Obama not selling Chicago home

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

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Christina Bellantoni

First published at WashingtonTimes.com The CBS affiliate in Chicago captured a nice scoop today when President-elect Barack Obama stopped in at Manny...

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Obama And Daley: Allies, Not Intimates

Chicago Tribune | Rick Pearson and Bob Secter | Posted 12.18.2008 | Chicago

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Barack Obama won election to the Illinois Senate in 1996 with no help from Richard Daley. The Chicago mayor offered no assistance to Obama in 2000 whe...

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Chicago Reporter: Emanuel Will Be Reviled By Dems

Washington Independent | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

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In the days following his election, it has become clear that President-elect Barack Obama is bringing a little bit of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's...

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