Cities don't have senators.
But Chicago is located in the State of Illinois which has two senators in the United States Senate. As of March 2011 they are Richard J. Durbin and Mark Kirk.
The State of Illinois also has a senate with 59 senators. Some of them come from districts that include parts of the City of Chicago.
community organizer in Chicago; professor of constitutional law at University of Chicago; Illinois State Senator; US Senator from Illinois
He was the Senator of Chicago.
Senator Stephen A. Douglas
Obama was a senator in Illinois. Chicago to be more specific
The Mayor,Senator,Singer,Athletic,and President.
In 2005, then-senator Barack Obama was living in Chicago with his wife and two daughters. He was also beginning his work as a United States Senator.
President Obama was teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School before he became a senator.
Before he was President, Barack Obama was a practicing attorney, community organizer, taught constitutional law at University of Chicago, was an Illinois State Senator and a US Senator from Illinois.
Before he was president, he worked in a number of places. He was a community organizer and advocate for the poor at a Catholic-run charity in Chicago. He was a civil rights attorney at a small Chicago law firm. He was a professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School. He was an Illinois state senator. And he was a United States Senator.
Yes. He worked in Chicago for the community, He was a senator in Illinois, and he was able to get elected.
Obama represented the state of Illinois in the US Senate. He lived in Chicago, IL, and was elected to the state senate as someone from the district that includes Chicago. But in US federal politics (congress), a senator is from a state, rather than from a city.
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.