rooms and in schools, at farms and on factory floors, at diners and on distant military outposts those conversations are what have kept me honest, and kept me inspired, and keptt me going. and every day, i have learned from you. you made me a better president, and you made me a better man. so i first came to chicago when i was in my early twenties, and i was still trying to figure out who i was, still searching for a purpose to my life. and it was a neighborhood notse far from here where i began working with church groups in the shadows of closed steel mills. it was on these streets where i witnessed the power of faith, and the quiet dignity of working