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...Sonia Sotomayor get the nod as Barack Obama's first pick for the Supreme Court? Of the four women in final contention for the job - the competition included two members of his Administration, Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as well as his fellow Chicagoan, Appeals Court Judge Diane P. Wood - Sotomayor was the candidate with whom the President was least familiar. But Sotomayor aced an hour-long interview with the President last Thursday at the White House, an official there says. "She is in many ways the combination of the experience and strong intellect...
...cruise industry, once thought recession-proof, is rolling out the deep-discount gangway in this crisis. Chicagoan Shirlee Yeary says she and her husband "were going to forget our winter getaway this year because of the economy." But her travel agency, Cruise Holidays, saw a deluxe cabin for a week in the Caribbean on a brand new ship, the Celebrity Solstice, at almost half price. For $1,100 per person, Yeary, who says she's never experienced the swank side of cruising, also gets a veranda, complimentary champagne, daily hors d'oeuvres and preferential treatment on shore excursions. "I wasn...
...Obama's formal brain trust. Torn between his loyalty to the Clintons and the fact that his home-state Senator was running, he stayed on the sidelines during the long and contentious Democratic primary race between Obama and Hillary Clinton, though many observers suspected his sympathies lay with the Chicagoan. Once that battle was over, Emanuel quickly established himself as one of Obama's closest advisers. "He was very helpful," Axelrod recalls. "They have a really candid but respectful relationship. [Obama] knows he can count on Rahm for unvarnished advice." By midsummer, Axelrod says, the President-to-be was privately...
...punk rockers Fall Out Boy get ready to release their fifth studio album, Folie à Deux, bassist Pete Wentz talked to TIME about his love for fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama, why he used to hate Led Zeppelin and naming his child Bronx Mowgli...
...just worth it.It wasn’t until I got home and laid the stiff denim on my bed that the magnitude of the day’s purchase hit me: did I really just buy a pair of Diesel jeans at full price? What happened to that young Chicagoan who scoured the Marshall Fields on State Street for marked down Guess? What happened to me at Harvard?There’s a picture of me that my mother took when we drove from Chicago to Cambridge at the start of my freshman year. Why on Earth we chose...