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Obama's Chicago Home Losing Police Protection

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...

Protecting President Obama's Chicago Home Costs City At Least $2.2 Million

Chicago Tribune | Annie Sweeney | Posted 08.21.2009 | Chicago


The Chicago Police Department has spent at least $2.2 million to secure President Barack Obama's Kenwood residence since he was elected in November, a...

Man Caught With Gun Near Obama's Home Gets 5 Years

STNG | Posted 08.10.2009 | Chicago


A South Side man caught carrying a weapon outside the Chicago home of President Barack Obama last fall was sentenced to five years in prison Friday....

Camp David Trumping Hyde Park For Obama

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...

Kid Offering View Of Obama's Chicago Home For $10

Chicago Tribune | Ofelia Casillas | Posted 02.28.2009 | Chicago


Obama's red-brick house in the Hyde Park/Kenwood neighborhood is protected by concrete barricades at either end of his block. Chicago police cars stan...

Obama not selling Chicago home

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics


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...

An Obama Boom in Hyde Park?

David Hoyt | Posted 12.18.2008 | Chicago


David Hoyt

It will take a lot more than the impulse spending of a presidential entourage to provide the housing, transit, jobs, and retail amenities that are needed in the President-elect's own back yard.

Ghosts of Obama's Hyde Park Manse

Nathan Gardels | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics


Nathan Gardels

Barack Obama's Hyde Park home is destined to become a national landmark. When I lived there between 1969 and 1973 the mansion was a hub of social activism.

Judge Mugged Near Obama's Home

Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 12.08.2008 | Chicago


The night before Election Day, a Cook County judge was mugged just blocks from Barack Obama's home in the Kenwood neighborhood. Judge Eileen Brewer, ...

Obama: The South Side Perspective

USA Today | Posted 10.27.2008 | Chicago


Catherine Haskins is 36 and has never bothered to vote in a presidential election. She says that will change Nov. 4 when she votes for Barack Obama. ...

Obama's South Side Home: A Timeline

Zillow | Diane Tuman | Posted 10.18.2008 | Chicago


Soon after Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, the up-and-coming junior senator from Illinois, purchased his Georgian revival mansion on the...

Security Increased At Obama's Home

Chicago Tribune | Deanese Williams-Harris and Steve Schmadeke | Posted 09.29.2008 | Chicago


As the U.S. Secret Service steps up security for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, parking restrictions in the area around his South Side...