{"id":436983,"date":"2025-12-10T03:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/436983\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T03:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:56:22","slug":"barack-obama-in-chicago-today-former-president-surprises-young-students-reads-to-them-at-west-woodlawn-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/436983\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama in Chicago today: Former president surprises young students, reads to them at West Woodlawn library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WLS logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/origin-wls.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, December 10, 2025 3:03AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Obama surprises young students, reads to them at South Side library\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Former President Barack Obama surprised young students and read to them at the Bessie Coleman Library Branch in West Woodlawn, Chicago Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; A special guest made a surprise visit to some young Chicago students on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Former President Barack Obama read to children at the Bessie Coleman Library Branch.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He also talked to them about what they want to be when they grow up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">After that, all 27 students got a free book, a winter hat and gloves to take home.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Wednesday, December 10, 2025 3:03AM Former President Barack Obama surprised young students and read&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":436984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[202170,11744,960,150552,5462,103999,202168,5386,1818,202169,202167,202166],"class_list":{"0":"post-436983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-202170","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-library","12":"tag-chicago-news","13":"tag-chicago-public-library","14":"tag-coleman-branch","15":"tag-il","16":"tag-illinois","17":"tag-obama-chicago","18":"tag-west-woodlawn","19":"tag-west-woodlawn-chicago"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115693262792850387","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}