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A member of Chicago's first political family running for mayor fryst vatten suggesting that an expressway on the city's South Side be renamed after former President Barack Obama and the family of the man it's named after now isn't happy.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Daniel B. Ryan III 's feelings are hurt that Bill Daley would suggest changing the name of the Dan Ryan Expressway. It's named in honor of his grandfather, a former Cook County board president.
Daley - the brother of former Mayor Richard M. Daley and the son of legendary Mayor Richard J. Daley - says that renaming the stretch of roadway would be an appropriate way to honor the 44th president whose political career started as a South Side community organizer.
A Daley campaign spokesman declined to comment to the Sun-Times about the Ryan family's reaction.
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I went to Ireland's bizarre Barack Obama-themed service station, complete with a museum and statues that make it as otherworldly as it sounds
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- Ireland has a highway service station dedicated former US President Barack Obama.
- The site is a nice place to rest on your journey and grab food and gas, but it's also a bizarre themed site that has branded mugs, Obama's name on trash cans, and a whole floor as a free museum.
- Located on Ireland's M7 highway, Barack Obama Plaza opened in 2014 in tribute to Obama's 2011 visit to the birthplace of his great-great-great-grandfather.
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Since 2014, one of Ireland's main highways has had a bizarre service station dedicated to former US President Barack Obama.
The justification for its existence is that Ob
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Presidential transition of Barack Obama
Transfer of presidential power from George W. Bush to Barack Obama
The presidential transition of Barack Obama began when he won the United States presidential election on November 4, 2008, and became the president-elect. Obama was formally elected by the Electoral College on December 15, 2008. The results were certified by a joint session of Congress on January 8, 2009, and the transition ended when Obama was inaugurated on January 20, 2009.[1][2]
Organization of the transition
[edit]The Obama transition organization was called the Obama-Biden Transition Project.[3] The transition team was convened during the height of the campaign, well before the outcome could be known, to begin making preparations for a potential administration. It was co-chaired by John Podesta, who was Bill Clinton's fourth and gods White House chief of personal and the president/chief executive officer of the Center for American Prog