Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 117. Chapters: Richard J. Daley, Richard M. Daley, Harold Washington, Barack Obama, Dan Rostenkowski, Peter Roskam, Paul Simon, Glenn Poshard, John Riley Tanner, Bill Brady, James Hutchinson Woodworth, John P. Daley, Edmund Dick Taylor, James W. Stephenson, Kirk W. Dillard, Judy Baar Topinka, Edward Dickinson Baker, Alice Palmer, Chris Lauzen, Debbie Halvorson, James Philip, Emil Jones, John H. Addams, Miguel del Valle, John G. Mulroe, James Meeks, Steve Rauschenberger, John Cullerton, Peter Fitzgerald, Carol Ronen, Lisa Madigan, Dave Koehler, James M. Strode, Heather Steans, William R. Haine, John J. Millner, John J. Nimrod, Michael Noland, John E. Grotberg, Randy Hultgren, Alan J. Dixon, Tom Dart, Frank Watson, Dan Rutherford, Maggie Crotty, Dawn Clark Netsch, John Wood, Jeffrey Schoenberg, William Alexander Richardson, Terry Link, Rickey R. Hendon, Jacqueline Y. Collins, Kwame Raoul, Toi Hutchinson, James DeLeo, Larry Bomke, Louis Viverito, Daniel Cronin, Annazette Collins, Gary G. Dahl, Elias Smith Dennis, John T. Stuart, William McMurtry, Martin Sandoval, Iris Martinez, Don Harmon, John O. Jones, Bob Kustra, Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, William Jayne, Theophilus W. Smith, Adeline Geo-Karis, Ira Silverstein, Antonio Munoz, Donne Trotter, Joseph W. Fifer, Joseph Duncan, Kimberly A. Lightford, Mark Aldrich, Susan Garrett, Karen Hasara, Edward Maloney, Carole Pankau, Pamela Althoff, John M. Sullivan, Patrick O'Malley, Morris E. Muhleman, Mike Frerichs, Dale Righter, Tim Bivins, Arthur Wilhelmi, Christine Radogno, Dale Risinger, Mike Jacobs, Matt Murphy, Dave Syverson, George Forquer, J. Bradley Burzynski, Michael Bond, William J. Allen, Mattie Hunter, Sue Rezin, William E. Peterson, Adam W. Snyder, William E. Mason, Samuel McRoberts, Dan Duffy, George E. Sangmeister, James Clayborne, Jr., Shane Cultra, Todd Sieben, Darin LaHood, David Luechtefeld, Kyle McCarter, Zadok Casey, Andrew J. Hunter, Beverly Fawell, Deanna Demuzio, Willis Allen, Ebenezer Peck, Burton C. Cook, Jasper D. Ward, Earlean Collins, Harris W. Fawell, Morton D. Hull, Ben F. Caldwell, Emil Jones, III, William St. John Forman, J. Leroy Adair, Carl Hawkinson, Thomas Vernor Smith, Thomas Carlin, Roland V. Libonati, Norman B. Judd, Anthony L. Knapp, Gary Forby, James Donnewald, Len Small, John Henry, Ronald Sandack, Andrew J. Kuykendall, Dan Kotowski, Terry L. Bruce, Linda Holmes, Patrick Welch, Vince Demuzio, William Joseph Lynch, William McHenry, Louis Menges, Tom Johnson, Adam C. Cliffe, Dave Sullivan, Archibald Williams, Suzi Schmidt, Kenneth G. McMillan, Edward Petka. Excerpt: Barack Hussein Obama II ( , born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his success in the 2008 presidential election. A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, he ran for Uni...