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Michael Minor

...though they may have had relatives in Chicago , Detroit, places like that—when the...
...that he said on election night there in Chicago . Before he even started, seein...
...Obama when he was a state senator in Chicago , working now with the museum. H...

Marian Robinson

...Garden Homes apartment complex, Chicago , Illinois] to the house on [South...
...to the house on [South] Euclid [Avenue, Chicago ]. That was complicated, because w...
...up in South Shore [neighborhood in Chicago ]. [Laughs] Thank you. Yes, yes. An...
...they owned on the West Side [of Chicago ], and they had to move. So they move...
...we ended up—although we were all from Chicago . [Laughs] Let's talk about your styl...

...thinking especially about the way that Chicago Public Schools were operating durin...
...[College, part of the City Colleges of Chicago ]. He would take the kids that were i...
...have had, she keeps coming back to Chicago , to her home. I wonder if you coul...
...to her? I think she felt like Chicago gave her the same opportunities tha...
...somewhere else to work, other than Chicago . She loves Chicago. She loved th...
...to work, other than Chicago. She loves Chicago . She loved the things you could do...
...they just went. I think she liked Chicago . I don't think she thought—and mayb...
...floor. [Laughs] He lived in Hyde Park [ Chicago ], in a little apartment. That was on...
...about his lack of connections to Chicago ? That there were things he needed t...
...organizer, he learned real quick how Chicago was. That was surprising for us t...
...her work more when she went to [ Chicago ] city hall? Oh, she loved it...
...to death. She was the founder of that Chicago branch. She had that thing up an...
...single neighborhood in the city of Chicago ,” because she was recruiting youn...
...around a lot—because she stayed in Chicago , and he had to go to Washington [DC]...
...Because I wasn't about to leave Chicago . Michelle had to call up her brother...
...there, you're just going to sit here in Chicago and worry about what is happening t...
...it out. If I was going to come back to Chicago to visit or anything, I would alway...
...been able to do if they were still in Chicago . Have friends over, go play wit...
...connected, the family, with people in Chicago , especially the girls? Or was it mor...
...that would come to visit them from Chicago . Yes. And they would stay over. As ...
...had friends that she had come from Chicago . They were pretty, pretty close t...
...now and then, I'd want to come back to Chicago , just to get away from DC. So muc...
...away from it. I would just come back to Chicago at a time when she was going to b...
...yes. You mentioned that you got back to Chicago as often as you could. What was it lik...
...for you when you would come back to Chicago from the White House? How was your lif...
...interviews are really focusing on the Chicago years. And I wonder if you have an...
...about how important it was that Chicago is the place where Barack and Michell...
...met each other if they both weren't in Chicago . The fact that they both love Chicag...
...Chicago. The fact that they both love Chicago has something to do with it. Michell...
...remembering things. Do you live in Chicago ? I do. I live in Hyde Park. I teac...

Chicago, IL - Obama Presidency Oral History

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