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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 ...
Construction of former President Obama's long-awaited library and museum in Chicago began with ambitious plans for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) but is now plagued by huge cost overruns ...
Barack Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, when he was elected to the United States Senate.During this part of his career, Obama continued teaching constitutional law part time at the University of Chicago Law School as he had done as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004.
The Barack Obama Foundation is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization founded in 2014. It oversees the creation of the Barack Obama Presidential Center, runs the My Brother's Keeper Alliance (a program Barack Obama began while he was president), and operates a scholarship program through the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy.
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.
(The Center Square) – A Black-owned concrete subcontractor tasked with the construction of the $830 million Obama Presidential Library in Chicago is suing the structural design firm overseeing ...
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 ...
Barack Obama first met Wright in the late 1980s, while he was working as a community organizer in Chicago before attending Harvard Law School. [7] Wright officiated at the wedding ceremony of Barack and Michelle Obama, as well as at their children's baptisms.