Obama's Best Hometown Moments: A Look Back One Year Later (PHOTOS)
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...
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...
Huffington Post | Posted 09.23.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Police Department is pulling its overtime detail that guards President Barack Obama's Kenwood home on Oct. 1, department officials announc...
Bloomberg.com | John McCormick | Posted 09.18.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 08.25.2009 | Chicago
In Washington, the relationships among the key players in government are subject to speculation and fascination over whether there is a "Chicago way" ...
Chicago Tribune | John McCormick | Posted 08.02.2009 | Chicago
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...
Politico | Posted 06.25.2009 | Chicago
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...
AP | Posted 03.18.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — President Barack Obama dropped by the University of Chicago campus Sunday for two hours of basketball with friends. Obama, who's spen...
The Huffington Post | Posted 03.16.2009 | Style
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...
AP | Posted 03.16.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - President Barack Obama says Illinois is ready to move forward now that Rod Blagojevich has been removed as governor. In an interv...
AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 03.16.2009 | Style
CHICAGO — Love and hoops topped the agenda for President Barack Obama this weekend. Obama, his wife, Michelle, and daughters arrived in Chicago...
AP | Posted 03.09.2009 | Chicago
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...
Edward Lifson | Posted 03.06.2009 | Chicago
We ought to change the name of the Charles Lindbergh Beacon atop the Palmolive Building to the Obama Light.
The Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
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...
AP | Don Babwin | Posted 02.17.2009 | Chicago
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...
Mike Smith | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics
If Obama had addressed concerns regarding his financial relationship with Blagojevich directly, his "Honest Ob'" reputation wouldn't be at risk at all.
Politico | Jonathan Martin | Posted 01.15.2009 | Chicago
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...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 01.14.2009 | Style
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...
Mike Smith | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics
Howard Dean or even Terry McAuliffe who told me in jest at Virginia's Democratic Victory Party that I could be Secretary of Commerce!
ABC News | MATTHEW JAFFE | Posted 12.30.2008 | Chicago
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...
AP | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics
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...
James Warren | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics
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.
Chicago Public Radio | Natalie Moore | Posted 12.31.2008 | Chicago
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...
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
First published at WashingtonTimes.com The CBS affiliate in Chicago captured a nice scoop today when President-elect Barack Obama stopped in at Manny...
Chicago Tribune | Rick Pearson and Bob Secter | Posted 12.18.2008 | Chicago
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...
Washington Independent | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics
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...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.04.2009 | Chicago