Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States, rented the first floor one-bedroom apartment in this red-doored building in 2006 while a Senator representing the state of Illinois before announcing his campaign for the presidency. In a November 2008 interview on “60 Minutes,” Obama joked that the apartment had a “vintage, college-dorm, pizza, empty bottle feel to it.”

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For more information on these historic sites, go to the restoration society’s web page for the walking tour at http://chrs.org/historic-sites-tour-2020/

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

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