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Youth group's Obama link raises its profile nationwide

When Vanessa Kirsch was working in the early 1990s to create a new organization to train young people for public service, she recalls, people kept telling her: "There's this guy in Chicago; you've got to meet with him."

That "guy" was a civil-rights lawyer and community organizer named...

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