President Barack Obama To Honor Blackhawks At White House On Feb. 18
The Blackhawks will be part of a longstanding presidential tradition.
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The Blackhawks will be part of a longstanding presidential tradition.
President Barack Obama was talking up the values of compromise and cordiality in a speech to Illinois lawmakers in Springfield, nine years to the day after he announced his campaign for president, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
The White House has said the president will address the Illinois General Assembly to make a plea for unity, to discuss "what we can do, together, to build a better politics - one that reflects our better selves."
President Barack Obama is about to take a trip down memory lane.
The Warriors visited the White House on Thursday to be honored for their 2015 championship.
Gov. Bruce Rauner said he's looking forward to hearing from President Barack Obama, who will visit the Illinois State Capitol next week, to speak to the General Assembly.
Senate President John Cullerton made an appearance at today's meeting of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, talking about the President Barack Obama's February 10 visit to Springfield and the effort to continue funding higher education amid the on-going budget battle.
If not for his bailout, "GM and Chrysler would not exists today," the president said.
This Thanksgiving, one lucky turkey is getting ready for a big trip – and not to the dinner table. Tom One, a native of a Modesto, California farm, has been chosen as the turkey to be pardoned by President Obama next week.
"I've not given up on him," Obama told GQ about Rose.
There was already beefed-up security at the United Center on Tuesday morning.
Butler agreed to a five-year deal Wednesday to stay in Chicago.
Obama launched his own Twitter account on Monday.
There were plenty of winners and losers after Tuesday's election, including many who weren't even on the ballot.
West Side elected officials are using this president's day to raise support for an Obama Presidential Library on the West Side.
The people behind the YouTube channel "Barack's Dubs" somehow managed to splice together parts of the President's speeches, sync it up to music and make it look like he's singing "Uptown Funk."
He was a metronome of glass half full attitude that kept multiple generations of Cubs fans from completely losing it.
President Barack Obama came to Chicago to talk about his executive order on immigration, but the events in Ferguson just prompted an impassioned response at the Copernicus Center on the Northwest Side.
Chicago's Jackie Robinson West Little League baseball team has made the obligatory champions' visit to the White House.
He might want to spend more time thinking about the Bobcats — or the Hornets," Barack Obama says.
There has been grumbling among aldermen and others who balked at the idea of naming a school on the city's near North Side after a president whose political career was launched on the South Side.
"You did us proud," Barack Obama told them.
An expert on global affairs agrees with President Obama's stance against sending American troops to deal with a growing insurgency in Iraq. CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports.
The U.S. Patent Office called the Redskins nickname "disparaging of Native Americans."
"We have to change a culture that says, 'suck it up,'" President Obama said.
