Mike Dorning

Rahm Emanuel greets supporters during a fundraiser for his campaign to be mayor of Chicago at the House of Blues in Chicago.

Transition plays hardball with Emanuel, Gibbs on board

June 18, 2018 at 3:56 p.m.

"Change" was Barack Obama's campaign theme. "Change ... or else," might be a better mantra for the political hardball players he has chosen for two key roles in his administration....

The chief strategist for Obama's presidential bid ran a focused, disciplined stay-on-message campaign. A political media guru for nearly a quarter of a century, David Axelrod has turned down overtures from Washington in the past but this time it was his client who made it all the way to the White House.

Intense glare on Obama’s transition

June 18, 2018 at 1:34 a.m.

Barack Obama's win was only hours old on Wednesday when he began construction of his administration, by day's end putting in place a transition team of friends and Washington veterans...

Live reports are conducted on a camera riser in Chicago's Grant Park, before the start of Barack Obama's election night campaign gallery.

Obama’s ripple effect on Chicago

May 14, 2019 at 9:15 a.m.

IMMEDIATE IMPACT Tourism: The Land of Lincoln will enjoy another "presidential halo effect" on its tourism industry, observers say. The Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau predicts increased interest in South...

Obama’s ripple effect

August 22, 2021 at 2:07 a.m.

IMMEDIATE IMPACT Tourism The Land of Lincoln will enjoy another "presidential halo effect" on its tourism industry, observers say. The Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau predicts increased interest in South...

Sen. Barack Obama holds a rally at the Prince Williams County Fairgrounds in Manassas, Virginia on Monday, November 3, 2008.

Barack Obama, our next president

January 30, 2019 at 11:19 a.m.

Barack Obama won the presidency Tuesday, the first African-American to claim the highest office in the land, an improbable candidate fulfilling a once-impossible dream. A nation that in living memory...

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. administers the oath of office to President Barack Obama a second time in the Map Room of the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009, in Washington, D.C.

Barack Obama’s improbable journey from rookie to rock

August 21, 2019 at 9:47 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama entered the presidential race as the youngster in the field, 45 years old and with little national experience. He was getting ready to take on such...

An improbable journey

August 22, 2021 at 4:22 a.m.

Barack Obama entered the presidential race as the youngster in the field, 45 years old and with little national experience. He was getting ready to take on such seasoned rivals...

Supporters hold signs at a "McCain Street USA" campaign event by Republican presidential candidate Arizona Sen. John McCain and his running mate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in Lebanon, Ohio.

Obama camp tries to seize ‘change’ mantle back from McCain-Palin ticket

June 18, 2018 at 2:02 a.m.

FLINT, Mich.— John McCain's unexpected selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate has confronted Barack Obama's campaign with a difficult challenge, as the Democrat seeks to undercut...

Obama: No vote owed McCain

August 22, 2021 at 2:20 a.m.

Barack Obama said Wednesday that Americans do not "owe" John McCain the presidency for the years he spent in a Vietnam prisoner-of-war camp. "We owe him gratitude for that," Obama...

Berlin crowd clearly drawn by top of ticket

August 22, 2021 at 8:17 a.m.

Some conservative bloggers have been circulating claims that a warm-up concert by a German band may have been partly responsible for the more than 200,000 people Berlin police estimated attended...

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