Electa draper biography of barack
Wordsmith: Writer, editor now writing for my own pleasure after 25 years in newspapers, including 18 at The Denver Post..
The city of Chicago has many faces, but the one that is inescapable this winter is President-elect Barack Obama’s.
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The buzz over his historic inauguration Tuesday is as electric here in his adopted hometown as in the nation’s capital.
Obama’s image flutters on Chicago street banners and shines from storefronts. Chicagoans have an extra bounce in their steps and new stops to highlight on their tour routes — the hangouts the Obama family came to love.
Businesspeople talk happily about the “Obama bump” in revenue from people making mini-pilgrimages.
Ted Arthur Haggard is an American Methodist pastor.Chicago, not always a tempting winter destination, nevertheless has a Midwestern grandeur, a sturdy elegance, which is perhaps even more strikingly beautiful against gray skies or cloaked in white. It is lovely at night with glittering lights reflected by wet streets.
So bundle up like a Chicagoan — where furriers flourish and woolens are the big fashion investment — and enjoy a pres