Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to a black Kenyan father and a whiteAmerican mother from Kansas, President Elect Barack Obama was raised in Indonesia and then later in Hawaii by his maternalgrandparents. But it was in Chicago that he was shaped, both socially and politically, and it is where he still lives today. Chicago is the third largest city in the United States and has one of the largest concentrations of black Americans, most of whom arrived at the beginning of the 20th century, fleeing the racist laws of the South...