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Obama: Help Wanted for Stimulus in Urban Areas

Cheryle Jackson | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home

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Cheryle Jackson

Though Obama's plan feels right on the surface, for me it raises two questions: "Which Main Streets?" and "Who gets those jobs?"

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Tourism Business Booming In Obama's Chicago

ABC News | MATTHEW JAFFE | Posted 11.29.2008 | Home

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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...

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Guest Column: Why Obama's Election Should Be Considered Historic

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.26.2008 | Home

Read More: Chicago, Obama, Racial, CotyJarret, Race, LewDan, Barack Obama, President, Election, Personal History, Politics, History, Eisenstein, Historic First, Racial Legacy, Chris Weigant, African American, Racism, Black, Llewellyn Daniel, Historic, Home News
Chris Weigant

For only the third time in this column's two-and-a-half year history (see note below), I am turning over my soapbox to a guest columnist. As with bot...

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I Can't Wait To Have a President Who...

Erica Heller | Posted 11.24.2008 | Home

Read More: 2008 Election, Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Race, George W. Bush, Karl Rove, Mission Accomplished, Chicago, Abraham Lincoln, Joe Biden, Cindy Sheehan, Global Warming, Home News
Erica Heller

7. Isn't afraid of a press conference, sex education, an intellectual, a gay person, stem cell research or as W. called it, "the internets," "3 Shakespeares," or an honest day's work.

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Barack Obama, "These Kids" and Charter Public Schools

Tom Cosgrove | Posted 11.21.2008 | Home

Read More: Public Schools, Test Scores, Illinois Network of Charter Schools, Education, Charter Public Schools, Chicago, Kids, Charter Schools, Green Dot, Obama, Teachers, Barack Obama, Incs, Home News
Tom Cosgrove

Barack Obama, in a pre-election speech, told the story of a teacher he encountered who complained of a "these kids" syndrome - the tendency to explain...

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Backyard Chicken Coops Gaining Popularity

NBC 5 | Steve Rhodes | Posted 11.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Chicago City Council, Chicago, Chicago Backyard Chicken Coops, Chicago City Council Health Committee, Backyard Poultry, Home Raised Chickens Chicago, Chicago Chickens, Chicago Roosters, Chicago Hens, Home News

A year ago, the Chicago City Council contemplated banning backyard chicken coops. "For that small, but apparently growing segment of Chicago homeowne...

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Chinese Demockery: The New Record Not By Guns N' Roses

Sal Nunziato | Posted 11.17.2008 | Home

Read More: The Beatles, Chicago, Pete Best, Axl Rose, Ray Davies, Guns N Roses, Thin Lizzy, The Kinks, Molly Hatchet, Home News
Sal Nunziato

Next week, we all finally get to hear Chinese Democracy. You know the new Guns N' Roses CD. But I want to know why anyone cares.

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Ghosts of Obama's Hyde Park Manse

Nathan Gardels | Posted 11.17.2008 | Home

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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.

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Obama Gives Ebony First Post-Election Interview, Photoshoot

The Swamp | Posted 11.14.2008 | Home

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So which magazine was the first to get a sit down interview and photo shoot with President-elect Barack Obama? Ebony Magazine, which was visited by t...

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Remembering Studs Terkel

Rick Ayers | Posted 11.10.2008 | Home

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Rick Ayers

It is sad that Studs died just before Barack Obama won this election. My guess is he already completed his absentee ballot. Obama is a Chicago candidate, one Studs was proud of.

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How the Obama Election Transformed Historic Locations

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Violence, Racism, 1968, Police, Chicago, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., 2008 Election, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Mayor Richard Daley, Barack Obama, Robert Kennedy, Grant Park, Election Reaction, HuffPost Election Reaction, Home News
Jim Wallis

Children of color, indeed of all colors, across America woke up on Wednesday morning not just to a new day, but a new world.

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90-Year-Old Chicago Woman Living With Siblings' Dead Bodies

AP | Posted 11.09.2008 | Home

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EVANSTON, Ill. — A 90-year-old woman apparently has been living in a house with the bodies of her three siblings, one of whom may have been dead...

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The America That Can Be/The America That Has Been

William Bradley | Posted 11.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Hawaii, Global, John McCain, Chicago, Presidential Campaign, Future, Civil War, TV Advertising, Barack Obama, Navy, First Black President, Home News
William Bradley

In Barack Obama and John McCain, we representatives of an emerging set of values and an enduring tradition. But we didn't get the sort of constructive debate between these traditions showing the value of each.

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"Support I Have Yet to Earn": Obama's Victory Speech

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.07.2008 | Home

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Rick Horowitz

Barack Obama was in the No-Gloat Zone. For his very first speech as president-elect... Obama crafted a message with much of the scope and power of an inaugural address.

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Getting to Work

Mike Bonifer | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home

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Mike Bonifer

Throughout the campaign, this idea of getting down to work told us what kind of person we'd be getting as President.

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A Chicago-Area Electoral Victory Says "No We Won't" to Nuke Power

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Elections, Solartopia, Chicago, Renewable Energy, Obama, Mccain, Green Energy, Nuclear Power, Election Results, Home News
Harvey Wasserman

Wall Street has given thumbs down to a technology that can't compete with Solartopian sources like wind, solar, tidal, geothermal and other green energies.

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Chicago's 2016 Olympic Bid Improved By Obama Win, Tokyo Insists Frontrunner Status

Reuters | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home

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TOKYO, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Tokyo's bid officials insist they still have the edge in the race to host the 2016 Olympics despite Barack Obama's victory in...

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Top Priority: Keep Obama safe

Diane Francis | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home

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Diane Francis

The United States cannot afford to take any risks. President Obama, and his family, must live in a bubble all their days in office. Handshaking, baby-kissing and plunging into crowds must be forbidden.

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When The World Watched Chicago

Robert Loerzel | Posted 11.05.2008 | Home

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Robert Loerzel

Obama's eloquent election-night speech in Grant Park is surely one of the great moments in Chicago history.

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Dear President Obama

David Doody | Posted 11.05.2008 | Home

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David Doody

You have inspired millions of people across the world to believe that their voices matter. Where before they had none, today they have one. And it is loud. And it is clear. And it is spoken through you, President Obama.

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(Watch) In Grant Park on Night History Was Made

John Hubers | Posted 11.05.2008 | Home

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John Hubers

It's 12:45 am on the day after everything changed. It changed around 9:45 or so last night when a giant Wolf Blitzer, floating above our heads on t...

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Obama: Globalization of Joy

Diane Francis | Posted 11.05.2008 | Home

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Diane Francis

Chicago's Grant Park was filled to the brim with half a million happy, cheering Americans from every socio-economic slice of America's multicultural society.

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Obama's Springfield Connection: 'Whatever He Says You Can Take To the Bank'

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 11.05.2008 | Home

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Karen Dalton-Beninato

Now that Illinois is offering a second President to the United States, it seemed fitting to spend the night watching Senator Barack Obama with the Democratic County Chair in Springfield.

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Barack Hussein Obama

Parvez Sharma | Posted 11.04.2008 | Home

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Parvez Sharma

Even though the Republican party with its "Whites Only" narrative succeeded in making "Muslim" and "Arab", the dirtiest epithets in America, the Obama narrative silenced them.

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Mavis Staples: Still Dedicated To Social Justice & Freedom

Sal Nunziato | Posted 11.04.2008 | Home

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Sal Nunziato

Mavis Staples is an emotional powerhouse, and her songs and stories continue to inspire.

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