Wu grew up mostly in suburban Barrington. She attended Roslyn Road Elementary School; Hough Street Elementary; Prairie Middle School; and Barrington High, graduating in 2003.
Michelle Wu, 36, won the Boston mayoral race on Tuesday, a quick rise for the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants born on Chicago s South Side, raised in Barrington and educated about bureaucracies when she wrestled with Chicago s City Hall to get permits to open a tea house.