"Do you hear the people sing, singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again. When the beating of your heart ec...
Alison Teal | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
I told Clark how much I admired him and his campaign and with tears streaming down his face, he said, "That was just a lucky moment in time for me. This, this is history."
AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 12.07.2008 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Chicago's tourism Web site beckons visitors to "experience the city the Obamas enjoy." The Illinois Bureau of Tourism plans to launch ...
Peter J Burns | Posted 12.07.2008 | Home
At Grant Park Obama reminded us of both Martin Luther King, Jr., and John F. Kennedy. I saw Dr. King's Dream come true on that stage. And Kennedy's vision was apparent in Obama's challenge to us. Kennedy and King never promised us a hand out. They promised us a fair shake.
Chicago Tribune | Posted 12.07.2008 | Chicago
IMMEDIATE IMPACT Tourism: The Land of Lincoln will enjoy another "presidential halo effect" on its tourism industry, observers say. The Chicago Conve...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 12.06.2008 | Chicago
The buzzing and maneuvering and pondering has been percolating for many weeks -- unmistakably, if quietly. But now that the winner of the White House...
Stephen Zunes | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
Though it is easy to dismiss the Republican reliance on the cootie effect and guilt-by-association as a sign of desperation, it would be a mistake to underestimate its potential impact.
The Daily Beast | Scott Turow | Posted 12.01.2008 | Chicago
Chicago, my hometown, and far more significantly, that of Sen. Barack Obama, appears poised with his election as president--pooh, pooh, pooh!--to beco...
Gordon Adams | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
What we need is someone to run this country with a cool head, an interest in betterment and who wants a safe and growing country in a healthy globe.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics
The Republican National Committee press office has been foreshadowing a final week effort to highlight Barack Obama's ties to indicted landlord and Ch...
Posted 10.23.2008 | Chicago
After a weekend discussing the economy while campaigning in North Carolina, Barack Obama is returning to Chicago to aid his own coffers. Obama is exp...
Chicago Magazine | Robert Reed | Posted 10.20.2008 | Chicago
The prospect of a President Barack Obama fills the top executive of Chicago Trolley and Double Decker Company with the audacity of hope. The company p...
James O'Gallagher | Posted 10.11.2008 | Home
In contrast to the Democrats I spoke to, the Republican lawyer said she saw no problem with McCain's militarism, nor that of the neoconservatives more generally. She didn't worry about the possibility of a draft. She felt that the Iraq War was "mismanaged" but that there was no hidden agenda and no "conspiracy" to lead us to war.
James Gallagher | Posted 10.06.2008 | Home
Note: This article was authored by James O'Gallagher. Any other versions are the result of a technical glitch. ...
Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 09.19.2008 | Chicago
When Alexi Giannoulias was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago in the mid-1990s, one of the guys he would play pick-up basketball games with...
236.com | 23/6: The News, But Funnier | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media
In light of the controversy surrounding this week's New Yorker cover, we wanted get some insight from an insider at the notoriously tight-lipped publi...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media
Barack Obama was asked if he had a response to the very controversial New Yorker cover that combines every rumor and smear about him and his wife Mich...
Michael Shaw | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media
I'm sure you've already seen analysis as to why it's so bad. Here is the actual "what" of what's wrong.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.21.2008 | Media
This week's New Yorker cover shows Barack and Michelle Obama as Muslim terrorists burning a flag in the Oval Office. Why would they publish such a thing? We asked New Yorker editor David Remnick. Here's what he said.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.21.2008 | Media
Who knows if they'll get this in Dubuque, but they sure aren't going to like it in Chicago: This week's New Yorker cover features an image of Michell...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.21.2008 | Media
Presumably the readership is sophisticated enough to get the joke, but this going to upset a lot of people -- probably for the same reason it's going to delight a lot of others on the right.
Markus Ziener | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
For the first time in a long time, we have a presidential contender who knows the hardships of the simple life -- and the tricks to stay afloat in a city like Chicago.
NY Times | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
The year was 1985 and Gerald Kellman, a community organizer, was interviewing an applicant named Barack Obama to work in the demoralized landscape of ...
New York Times | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
In August 1999, Barack Obama strolled amid the floats and bands making their way down Martin Luther King Drive on Chicago's South Side. Billed as the ...
Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district's influential liberals at the home of two ...
Margot Rogers | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics