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He moved to Chicago in the mid-1980s to be a community organizer and advocate for the poor; after graduating from Harvard Law School, he returned to Chicago to be a civil rights attorney and a professor of law; he then decided to enter politics in 1996 and was elected an Illinois state senator. He was re-elected several times and then ran for U.S. senator (and won) in 2004.

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