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Who Is Valerie Jarrett?

One advantage of a big, media-focused convention is that so many shadowy campaign "insiders" seek the spotlight. In Denver, one of Sen. Barack Obama's closest advisers has been making the media rounds: Valerie Jarrett....

Hi-fi to Wifi: How the conventions evolved

Larry Kane is a longtime Philadelphia journalist and host of "Voice of Reason" on CN8 I've seen a lot of conventions, and of all the things that have changed in almost 50 years, by far the most decisive is technology....

Even in early Chicago years, Obama was ambitious, pragmatic, strategic

By Margaret Talev McClatchy-Tribune News Service CHICAGO — As Barack Obama prepares to accept the Democratic nomination for president in Denver on Thursday, the short version of his unusual life story often leaves out...

A glimpse of the young Obama in action

A random meeting gives sneak preview of a future presidential candidate Youthful Obama's leadership evident at stormy political protest Eyewitness laments Obama's squandered talent Editor's note: In our Behind the Scenes...

The Obama 15

A guide to the fifteen political operatives who run Obama's world. He then worked on Chicago mayor Harold Washington's 1987 reelection campaign, Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate race, and as the media guru for John Edwards' 2004...

How Chicago helped shape Obama

ILLUSTRATION BY RAFFI ANDERIAN/TORONTO STAR Tim Harper Washington Bureau CHICAGO–Twenty-three years before he stood at the threshold of the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama sat in a coffee shop on Lexington Ave....

The End of Placeness

The end of placeness is one of the features of the campaign. That's where Mr. McCain settled, a perfect place from which to launch a more or less conservative career in the 1980s. Neither man has or gives a strong sense of...

The End of Placeness

The end of placeness is one of the features of the campaign. That's where Mr. McCain settled, a perfect place from which to launch a more or less conservative career in the 1980s. Neither man has or gives a strong sense of...

Latest smear against Obama an abomination

Book exploits racial fears, hate in effort to scare white America BY MARY MITCHELL Sun-Times Columnist Jerome R. Corsi's book about Barack Obama is a good example of the right wing's racial fear-mongering. In reducing Obama's...

20 Years Of Night Games At Wrigley Field

Lights Were Erected At Ballpark In 1988 Despite Decades Of Opposition, Roadblocks CHICAGO (CBS) ― Twenty years ago Friday, the Cubs played their first night game in Wrigley Field, after a decades-long push to have lights...