Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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U. Chicago recalls ‘rising star’

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, November 5, 2008

CHICAGO — When he was a professor of law at the University of Chicago, president-elect Barack Obama’s favorite classroom was Room V, the Harry A. Bigelow lecture hall. It is an airy and windowed space, one of the largest at the school, according to a University of Chicago facilities administrator who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the press.

On Tuesday night, Obama’s future was writ large in Chicago’s Grant Park. But the ghosts of his past linger here at the University of Chicago, where students and faculty buzzed with anticipation on the morning of...

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