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Chicago mayor and former Obama White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel submitted two ordinances to the Chicago City Council on September 20: the first would grant the Obama Foundation a 99-year lease on the Jackson Park site for $10.00 with various restrictions on the foundation's use, in return for the foundation's financial responsibility for ...
Barack Obama: 5046 South Greenwood Avenue, Kenwood, Chicago 45/47: Donald Trump: Childhood homes, Queens, New York City Penthouse apartment, Trump Tower, New York City Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida See Residences of Donald Trump: 46: Joseph Biden: 1209 Barley Mill Road, Greenville, Delaware
Barack Hussein Obama II [a] (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 ...
CHICAGO (AP) - President Barack Obama has decided to build his presidential library on the South Side of Chicago, where his political career began. The Barack Obama Foundation announced early ...
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In Chicago, Obama worked at various times as a community organizer, lawyer, lecturer and senior Lecturer of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School in the city's South Side, and later published his memoir Dreams from My Father before beginning his political career in 1997 as a member of the Illinois Senate.
M. Spencer Green/The Associated Press By Jason Keyser CHICAGO -- Barack Obama's journey from community organizer to lawmaker to president was also a journey through several different Chicagos ...
Many of Chicago's prominent African-American politicians live or have lived in Hyde Park, including former Chicago mayor Harold Washington, the city's first Black mayor; [25] former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun, the first Black female U.S. senator; [26] former U.S. President Barack Obama; [16] and Toni Preckwinkle, the current President of ...