Chicago/Illinois Political Chart for Obama Supporters

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Richard Michael Daley
(born April 24, 1942)
Mayor of Chicago
(Since 1989)
Richard Joseph Daley
(Father of Richard Michael Daley)
(May 15, 1902 - December 20, 1976)
Mayor of Chicago
(1955 - 1976)
Supporter of John F. Kennedy in 1960.

William Michael Daley
(Brother of Richard Michael Daley)
(born August 8, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois)
U.S. Secretary of Commerce
(1997 - 2000)
Appointed by President Bill Clinton.
Rod R. Blagojevich
(born December 10, 1956)
Governor of Illinois
Richard F. "Dick" Mell
(Father-in-law of Rod R. Blagojevich)
(born May 5, 1938)
Alderman, Chicago City Council

Deborah L. Mell
(Daughter of Richard F. "Dick" Mell)
Candidate Illinois House of Representatives
(40th district seat; unopposed.)
Jesse Louis Jackson, Jr.
(born March 11, 1965)
U.S. Congressman
(United States House of Representatives
Illinois's 2nd congressional district.)
Sandi Jackson
(Wife of Jesse Louis Jackson, Jr.)
(born on September 14, 1963)
Alderman, Chicago City Council
"She succeeds Darcel A. Beavers who had been appointed by Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley after the 2006 November elections to succeed her father William Beavers, Jackson's rival, as alderman of the 7th Ward."

Jesse Louis Jackson
(Father of Jesse Louis Jackson, Jr.)
(born October 8, 1941)
Lisa Madigan
(born July 30, 1966 in Chicago)
Attorney General
(State of Illinois)
Michael J. Madigan
(Father of Lisa Madigan)
(born April 19, 1942)
Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives & Chairman of the Democratic Party of Illinois.
Todd Stroger
(born January 14, 1963)
Alderman
Cook County Board President
"In 2001 Stroger was appointed by Mayor Richard M. Daley to replace the late Ald. Dixon. On July 18, 2006, the Cook County Democratic Central Committee (a collection of 80 county Democratic party leaders also known as 'ward committeemen' or 'township committeemen') overwhelmingly chose Todd Stroger to replace his father as the Democratic candidate for Cook County Board."
John H. Stroger
(Father of Todd Stroger)
(May 19, 1929 - January 18, 2008)
Cook County Board President
Barack Hussein Obama
(born August 4, 1961)
U.S. Senator
Harvard Law School
Illinois State Senate (from 1997)
University of Chicago
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama
(Wife of Barack Hussein Obama)
(born January 17, 1964)
Vice President for Community and External Affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals
Harvard Law School
"She served on the board of TreeHouse Foods, Inc., a major Wal-Mart supplier...Obama served as the Associate Dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago since 1996 where she developed the University's Community Service Center.  She then worked for the University of Chicago Hospitals beginning in 2002, first as executive director for community affairs..."

Frasier Robinson
(Father-in-law of Barack Hussein Obama)
(who died in 1990),
City of Chicago pump operator & Democratic precinct captain. Joseph P. Kennedy
"Purchase [of] the largest office building in the country, Chicago's Merchandise Mart, which gave his family an important base in that city and an alliance with the Irish-American political leadership there."
Sam Giancana
"It is also widely reputed that, at roughly the same time, Joseph P. Kennedy recruited Giancana to help mobilize labor union voter and financial support behind his son Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy in the latter's bid to become the Democratic Party's nominee for the 1960 Presidential election..."
John D. Rockefeller
"In 1890 John D. Rockefeller gave $80 million to the University of Chicago under William Rainey Harper, turning a small Baptist college into a world-class institution by 1900."

University of Chicago
The development of agent orange;
world's first self-sustained nuclear reaction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M._Daley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Daley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Daley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_Mell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson_Jr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandi_Jackson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Madigan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Madigan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Stroger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stroger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_obama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Obama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Giancana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller