The Obama Family Home

5046 S Greenwood Avenue (Kenwood)

The red brick Georgian-style home is where Barack Obama and his family lived from 2005 until he became president in 2008. The Obamas retained the house and visited it occasionally until a year after they left the White House. It sold for nearly $4 million in 2021. They moved into this house just after Barrack Obama was sworn in as an Illinois state senator. Daughters Sasha and Malia were just four and seven years old when the Obamas first moved into the house. Obama published his second book while living here. He also, of course, mounted a presidential campaign and defeated Hillary Clinton to secure the 2008 Democratic candidacy and then won the general election over John McCain to become America’s first Black president.

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