2007: U.S. Sen. Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency outside the Old State Capitol in Springfield, which ...

Rahm Emanuel, who most recently served as ambassador to Japan during the Biden administration, is CNN’s new senior political ...

Obama exemplified the Chicago stereotype of how to get business ... on a trumped-up charge to mask the culpability of the White House were a minor affair. Was it just a coincidence that Senator ...

Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) has been representing Illinois’s 8th Congressional District, which includes many northwestern Chicago ... worked on Obama’s unsuccessful race for the House in ...

Michelle Obama has been celebrating Black History Month, as she shared an old photo with her portrait artist Amy Sherald when ...

(Chicago Tribune) 1916 ... which was the site of Abraham Lincoln’s June 16, 1858, “House Divided” speech. Obama urged Americans who hear “destiny calling” to join him “in the ...