Obama Tourism

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...

Claiming Obama: Hawaii, Illinois Battle For Tourism Edge

Chicago Tribune | John McCormick | Posted 01.30.2009 | Chicago


HONOLULU -- Locals here sometimes call Barack Obama a kamaaina, the Hawaiian word for native born or one who has lived here for some time. Chicagoans,...

Obama's Hyde Park

New York Times | Michael Y. Park | Posted 01.22.2009 | Chicago


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...

Hotel Offering Obama-Themed 'City Of Hope' Package

Financial Times | Hal Weitzman | Posted 01.01.2009 | Chicago


A luxury hotel might seem like a bad business to be running during an economic downturn, but Patrick Hatton, general manager of The James in downtown...

Tourism Business Booming In Obama's Chicago

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...

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.

Illinois Tourism Counting On Big Obama Boost

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 ...