Articles filed under Barack Obama
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Harper College pitches Obama to be graduation speakerMay 01, 2017 8:19 am - Harper College is trying to lure former President Barack Obama to be the school's commencement speaker next year on the occasion of the Palatine-based community college'...
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Obama talks youth leadership post presidencyApr 25, 2017 6:21 am - Former President Barack Obama is using his first public appearance since leaving office to talk with students about his experiences as a community organizer in Chicago a...
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Obama to hold first public event of his post-presidencyApr 22, 2017 7:09 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Barack Obama will speak Monday in Chicago to young community leaders and organizers at the University of Chicago, where his presidenti...
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Trump says Obama wiretapped his phones; sources say noMar 06, 2017 5:13 am - President Donald Trump on Saturday angrily accused former President Barack Obama of orchestrating a "Nixon/Watergate" plot to tap the phones at his Trump Tower headquart...
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2 plans to name Illinois highways for Obama in the worksFeb 23, 2017 5:42 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Democratic lawmakers from Chicago want portions of Illinois highways named for former President Barack Obama. Rep. La Shawn Ford said Wednesday he would wr...
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Constable: Unlike namesakes, presidential cookies always 'nut-free'Jan 26, 2017 12:07 pm - By Burt Constable bconstable@dailyherald.com When it comes to memorizing the names of our nation's presidents, today's first-graders have it 36.5 percent tougher than a ...
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History, humor unite as Obama honors Chicago CubsJan 17, 2017 4:46 pm - WASHINGTON - In the grand scheme of things, maybe sports don't mean all that much. But in a world that seems to grow weightier by the day, sports do lighten the load a ...
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Constable: Obama's grace more than skin deepJan 11, 2017 4:48 am - In a nation still struggling with a racial history birthed from slavery, Barack Obama will be immortalized as America's first black president. But the most impressive th...
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Cubs will visit White House on MondayJan 11, 2017 7:27 pm - The World Series champion Chicago Cubs will make a celebratory visit to the White House before President Barack Obama leaves office. Multiple sources confirmed that the ...
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How the U.S. job market has evolved over Obama's 8 yearsJan 10, 2017 5:11 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - When President Barack Obama took office in January 2009 in the midst of the Great Recession, the economy was hemorrhaging jobs. Employers were panickin...