Ira Glass talks with David Axelrod, who served as an advisor to Harold Washington and Barack Obama. In 2007, when we last broadcast this show, Ira recorded an interview with Axelrod, who was riding on Obama’s campaign bus, during the Democratic Primary in Iowa. Axelrod explained that by 2007, the white Chicago wards that didn’t vote for Harold overwhelmingly came out for Obama. Then, WBEZ reporter Robert Wildeboer talks to some of those voters in wards where Harold did poorly in the 1980s, about what changed for them. And we hear an excerpt from "Dreams From My Father," where Barack Obama writes about what Chicago was like in the days after Harold’s death. (11 minutes)
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