Illinois, United States - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Illinois, United States Index / Locations Transcripts Cody Keenan ...Sure. I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois —born in Wrigleyville, seven block... ...University, and then Wilmette, Illinois . I ended up going to Northwestern. ... ...chief speechwriter for the governor of Illinois [J. B. Pritzker] . And she was onl... ...paid attention to the Senate race in Illinois until he won, or until he gave tha... ...this guy.” But I was pretty proud that Illinois would elect somebody like that. I wa... Tom Vilsack ...rushing over to see this guy from Illinois . Small historical tidbit, you have t... ...said to the staff, I said, “Get me the Illinois stats on how many housing units w... ...you'd be interested in this state, Illinois . I just picked a state randomly.” ... ...picked a state randomly.” I said, “ Illinois . And we're doing x number of units.... ...him housing statistics for the state of Illinois , how many loans we had done for rura... Anthony Fauci ...And he was the junior senator from Illinois , and he was obviously very impressiv... Sarah Bloom Raskin ...that you grew up in Massachusetts and Illinois , and I'm curious: Were ther... ...my parents moved with me to southern Illinois . We lived at the very bottom o... ...We lived at the very bottom of Illinois , right over the border from Kentucky... Julianna Smoot ...They stayed on board, Jordan did Illinois and Jenny did New York. We had ... ...Kaplan was the finance director for Illinois , so it was all of Illinois, but th... ...director for Illinois, so it was all of Illinois , but the majority of the funding cam... ...the president was not running just in Illinois . He had to be away from Illinois for ... ...in Illinois. He had to be away from Illinois for a lot of it, spending a ton of tim... ...did was put the campaign in Chicago, in Illinois , outside of DC, so that we coul... Show more... Samantha Tubman ...would I go? Where is it? Springfield, Illinois , in January?” I remember going an... ...campaign were flown out to Springfield, Illinois , in January 2007. The event wa... ...in to see the junior senator from Illinois speak. Up until that point—I thin... ...everything I learned in Springfield, Illinois , to learn how to set this up. Avri... Sam Kass ...when he was down in [laughs] southern Illinois on his own. So he helped out with som... Eric Waldo ...about this one-term congressperson from Illinois , Abraham Lincoln, who ends up out o... Josh DuBois ...who writes letters to the people of Illinois . Now, I'm coming out of graduat... ...wife now, was a constituent of his from Illinois . She came to a constituent coffee. H... Jocelyn Frye ...story of him being in Springfield [ Illinois ], and so forth, and then having ... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Russia Russia go to the Obama in the Senate Obama in the Senate go to the LGBTQ Policy LGBTQ Policy go to the Immigration Immigration go to the Democrats Democrats