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President Obama hits Chicago Wednesday to stump for Quinn

By  Lynn Sweet
   
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Updated……WASHINGTON–President Barack Obama returns home to Chicago next Wednesday to campaign for Gov. Pat Quinn, a White House official told the Chicago Sun-Times. The Quinn event is on Thursday.

The president will spend the night in Chicago.

My May column on how the White House was all in to help Quinn is HERE.

RELATED: FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA STUMPS FOR QUINN IN CHICAGO ON OCT. 7

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