Hitting the presidential campaign trail with Obama
By Christine Des Garennes
Sunday April 29, 2007
Heather Coit
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama delivers a speech at an April 16 fundraiser in Milwaukee.
On a frigid February morning, Barack Obama stood in front of the Old State Capitol in Springfield – where Abraham Lincoln delivered his "House Divided" speech almost 150 years ago – and announced his bid for the U.S. presidency.
He was surrounded by more than 15,000 people, many of them Illinoisans.
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