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Singer songwriter James Taylor and Kim Taylor speak with the media as they arrive for a state dinner at the White House for Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Oct. 18, 2016.

Chance the Rapper among Chicagoans at final Obama state dinner

May 22, 2019 at 10:37 p.m.

President Barack Obama and the first lady hosted a fall-themed fete Tuesday night for Italy's prime minister, bringing in chef Mario Batali and singer Gwen Stefani to make the administration's...

Jesse Jackson Jr., background right, and his wife, Sandi, make their way past reporters and photojournalists after their sentencing hearing Aug. 14, 2013.

Ex-Ald. Sandi Jackson completes prison term, joins husband on parole

May 22, 2019 at 10:36 p.m.

Former Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson will complete her one-year prison term Tuesday, Bureau of Prisons records show. She and her spouse, former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., were convicted in...

A bicyclist in Jackson Park near the site of the Obama Presidential Center on April 14, 2021.

Silicon Valley billionaire among recent donors to Obama Presidential Center

June 9, 2018 at 10:35 a.m.

New donors to Barack Obama's future Presidential Center in Chicago include Reid Hoffman, a billionaire from Silicon Valley, Daniel Levin, a developer from Winnetka, and a foundation managed by Andrew...

Obama Foundation names 17 leaders to ‘inclusion council’ on diversity issues

June 9, 2018 at 11:50 a.m.

The nonprofit foundation behind the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park said Tuesday it has enlisted 17 civic and corporate leaders to help promote diversity and inclusion. The presidential center,...

First lady Michelle Obama hikes the Ship Harbor Trail in Bar Harbor, Maine, with press secretary Katie McCormick Lelyveld in July 2010.

Staffers: Obama changed as president, but never ‘went Washington’

December 18, 2018 at 3:44 a.m.

Barack Obama, who made "change" part of his campaign slogan in 2008, is himself transformed after nearly eight years in the Oval Office. That his hair is grayer is a...

Economist Austan Goolsbee, seen at the University of Chicago's Gleacher Center on Sept. 19, 2016, was an economic adviser to President Barack Obama.

Chicago’s ‘Obama people’ recall key jobs in his White House, Cabinet

December 18, 2018 at 3:45 a.m.

Barack Obama was elected America's first black president promising hope and change — but he inherited an economy at risk of collapse and a military fighting two wars abroad. So...

Former Ald. Sandi Jackson on home confinement, prison official says

May 22, 2019 at 10:28 p.m.

Released from federal prison, former Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson will be on home confinement until Oct. 18, a Bureau of Prisons official said Thursday. Jackson on Tuesday left a federal...

Sandi Jackson released from federal prison camp

May 22, 2019 at 10:27 p.m.

Former Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson is enjoying a taste of freedom on her birthday after leaving a federal prison camp in West Virginia, where she had been serving a one-year...

U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush has been representing Illinois in Congress since 1993.

U.S. Rep. Rush complains of racial profiling by Chicago police, sources say

August 21, 2019 at 7:56 p.m.

U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush has filed a complaint saying he was racially profiled by Chicago police after two officers pulled him over while driving on the South Side in August,...

President Barack Obama cut short the sentences of 111 federal inmates, including 8 from Illinois, in another round of commutations for those convicted of nonviolent drug offenses.

Obama’s commutations include 8 from Illinois

August 21, 2019 at 7:55 p.m.

Twenty-four years ago, Chicago's Rudy Martinez told a judge he turned to drug dealing after seeing how hard his mother worked in a laundry for $45 a week. Martinez, who...

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