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 :I am taking a break from editing the article itself for a while. But here is a quote from the National Review article cited about his move to Chicago. Could some of this information be included in the article? 

 ::After these itinerant years, he would finally be able to insinuate himself into a communityand not just any community, but, as he later put it, ""the capital of the African American community in the country."" Every strain of black political thought seemed to converge in Chicago in the 1980s. It was the intellectual center of black nationalism, the base both for Jesse Jackson's presidential campaigns and for Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam. Moreover, on the eve of Obama's arrival, Harold Washington had overthrown Richard J. Daley's white ethnic machine to become the city's first black mayor. It was, in short, an ideal place for an identity-starved Kenyan Kansan to immerse himself in a more typical black American experience.   

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