By C. Edmund Wright // < ![CDATA[ NG_AddEvent(window, 'load', NG_Localize); // ]]> Of course Barack and Michelle Obama failed in Copenhagen. Their strategy could not possibly succeed. In their academic arrogance, they thought they could sell a product they clearly do not believe in (the United States) and moreover, they could do so by stressing the benefits to the seller (Chicago) and not... 

The mayor, the president and Oprah Winfrey may hope to return to Chicago from Copenhagen with the 2016 Olympic Games, but some around town hope the International Olympic Committee deems the Second City the second city. Share/Save Read More →

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are both traveling to Copenhagen this week to promote Chicago’s bid to host to the 2016 Olympic Games–and they will be making the 3,979-mile trip on separate airplanes.” Share/Save Read More →

It's a Tuesday in June, and I am in one of the high-ceiling big rooms of the old office building next to the White House. As I look around the room at the players assembled here — including this scribe — I'm thinking that with a few twists of fate, this all-Chicago gang could be huddling in Mayor Daley's City Hall. Share/Save Read More →

By Lynn Sweet  The top Chicagoans in the Obama White House also earn the top White House staff salaries — capped at $172,200, according to a list released Wednesday. The $172,200 earners from Chicago: senior adviser David Axelrod, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and Susan Sher, chief of staff to the first lady. Tina Tchen, the director of the office of public... 

First lady Michelle Obama has replaced her chief of staff with a longtime Chicago friend in a major shakeup of the East Wing Staff. Jackie Norris, who bonded with Obama during the 2008 primary campaign, has been replaced by Susan Sher, who worked with Obama at the University of Chicago. Sher had been providing legal advice to the administration as well as working on health care reform. Share/Save Read More →

The Ethel C. Fenig OMG!  I agree with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn!  Sort of.  Abdon M. Pallasch,  reports in the Chicago Sun-Times on a speech that dynamite duo gave to a small gathering on Memorial Day, proclaiming racism (is) not dead. Share/Save Read More →

The day before President Barack Obama was to meet with Israel's prime minister, community activists, clergy and residents marched through Oak Park on Sunday to call for a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Share/Save Read More →

BY ABDON M. PALLASCH President Obama got his start as a community organizer in Roseland, but a few dozen residents gathered there Saturday gave the new commander-in-chief a failing grade for not doing enough to tackle urban problems during his first 100 days in office. Share/Save Read More →

In Boston, they'll be cramming the Common. In Dayton, 7,000 RSVPs leave organizers bracing for a record crowd outside the courthouse. In Atlanta, they're expecting a crowd of more than 10,000 near the statehouse. In President Obama's hometown of Chicago, organizers are expecting at least several thousand people outside the Federal Building. Share/Save Read More →

BY FRAN SPIELMAN Chicago has yet to recoup the $1.74 million cost of President Obama's victory celebration in Grant Park — despite a burgeoning $50.5 million budget shortfall that threatens more layoffs and union concessions. "The Democratic National Committee has not yet paid us,'' Peter Scales, a spokesman for the city's Office of Budget and Management, said Thursday after...