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The Obamas' rather grand red-brick home is located in the historic Kenwood neighborhood. Barack and Michelle Obama bought the house for nearly $1.7 million in the summer of 2005. (Warning: You won't get near the house--Secret Service is blocking access to the area.)

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Grant Park's Hutchinson Field (just south of Congress Parkway, east of Michigan Avenue), is where Obama gave his victory speech on Election Night in front of 250,000 people.

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This is the health club where barack worked out, played tennis, shot hoops and rubs shoulders with other Chicago names like Mayor Daley and Jesse Jackson.

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Obama's pre-election headquarters on the 11th floor occupying 33,000 square feet of space since June 2007, was just west of the hotel where he watched the election returns.

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A soul food favorite of many Chicago politicians as well as Obama. If it's on the menu that day, order Obama's turkey legs and dressing.

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This was the law firm where Barack held his first job as an attorney after graduating from Harvard Law Scholl in 1991

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A condo where the family lived for 12 years, before sales from Obama's first book, "Dreams From My Father," swelled their bank account.

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Obama watched the election returns with his family and close campaign aides at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.

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In 1990. Obama was a summer associate at the former Hopkins & Sutter law firm.

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In the late 1980's this was the location of Barack Obama's aprtment in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood.

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Chase Tower was once home to what was then known as Sidley & Austin, a prestigious law firm (Sidley Austin is its name these days and is now located across the street at One South Dearborn). This is where Obama met Michelle Robinson in 1989 while he was a summer associate. She was an associate mentor--his and no, she wasn't into him from the start.

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The now-relocated barber shop (he called Smitty's in his book) where, for 20 years, Obama would have his hair cut.

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Then it's on to Federal Plaza (50 W. Adams St.), where Obama, as a state senator, gave a speech denouncing the Iraq war during a small 2002 anti-war rally. (And that massive red metal sculpture? It's "Flamingo" by famed American artist Alexander Calder.)

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A red brick building with green awnings housed the now-closed Baskin-Robbins in front of which, he and the future Mrs. Obama had their first kiss.

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Current location of Trinity United Church of Christ where Obama was a member for two decades. He and his family left the congregation in May 2008 following statements made by the senior pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

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Obama, a longtime member of the co-op, held launch parties here for his books, "Dreams" and "The Audacity of Hope," and has reportedly called it his favorite bookstore.

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Original location of church when Obama became a member and where he married Michelle Robinson on Oct. 3, 1992, Rev. Wright officiating.

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A favorite Dinner spot would be Topolobampo, the white-tablecloth sibling of chef Rick Bayless' Frontera Grill. Barack and Michelle are regulars, opting for one of the blue-and-white fabric-covered booths lining the restaurant's south side. And while the menu changes monthly (perfect for what Bayless calls a pair of "adventurous diners"), they often order the guacamole (Michelle) and sopa Azteca (Barack).

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A Hyde Park hub for more than 80 years, Valois is where Obama ate before heading to D.C. for his Senate job. The cafeteria-style restaurant does breakfasts and, on Thursdays and Sundays, a mean chicken pot pie.

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Obama has indulged his Hawaiian connection in Roy's "Hawaiian fusion" cuisine.

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Barack and Michelle dined here, a favorite, on the Saturday after election day, forcing thrilled patrons to be wanded by Secret Service on their way in. Word is that Obama "loved the wood-roasted scallops."

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Journey to the leafy University of Chicago campus and the architecturally significant University of Chicago Law School, where Obama taught from 1993 to 2003 and perhaps acquired what some have called a "professorial" tone. Designed by Eero Saarinen, the man who gave us the St. Louis Gateway Arch, it has a pleated glass exterior.

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During his work as a community activist, Obama would participate in meetings here.

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Laurel Stradford's shop, filled with gifts and decorative accessories, used to be next to Obama's barber on 53rd Street and the now president-elect would visit.

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On the basketball courts at Hayes and South Lake Shore Drive is where Obama and his brother-in-law, Craig Robinson (now a coach at Oregon State University), shot hoops. And where Obama proved he was worthy of Robinson's sister.

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Michelle and Barack were married Oct. 3, 1992. Their reception? It was held overlooking Lake Michigan at the lovely terra cotta-toned South Shore Cultural Center.

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Maria Pinto, in the city's Market District, is the shop featuring silk scarves, cashmere scarves, ties and clothing designed by the woman who dressed Michelle Obama for the Democratic National Convention and other notable events.

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Holy Rosary Catholic Church rectory is the site where Obama worked as a community organizer in the '80s, a job famously derided by Rudy Giuliani and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin at the GOP convention.