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Close to home Obama has edge in urban areas near Chicago...
...Chicago region...
Nine colleges have offered Sarah Simon, of Wellesley, Mass., a spot in their class of 2012: Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Princeton, Stanford, University of Chicago, Vassar and Williams. But she's a dancer--ballet six times a week, modern twice, jazz once--and Columbia University in New York City would give her access not only to an exceptional ballet program at its sister school Barnard but also to the epicenter of the dance world. Unfortunately, Columbia has put her on the waitlist. Though she's not whining about her wealth of options, Simon, a senior at Noble and Greenough School...
...ever seen. He has been raising more than $1 million a day for several months now, with more than a third coming in small amounts from people who can give again. He also has some home-court advantages: up to 30% of Indiana's Democratic voters live in the Chicago media market. The heavily African-American city of East Chicago is actually in Indiana...
...campaign mantra, and the nickname of this hilly region along the Indiana-Michigan border. On the evening of March 5, about 110 people gathered at the St. Joseph County Democratic headquarters to eat pizza and watch the Ohio and Texas primary results. Then came a call from Obama's Chicago headquarters. An Obama representative told them, "Indiana matters," and gave marching orders: first to get a real estate agent and scout a local campaign office. They settled on a first-floor office in a redbrick building next door to the county-city hall. An elderly Indian-American couple whose children...