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Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American lawyer and the wife of Illinois senator Barack Obama who is a candidate for the 2008 Democratic Party nomination for United States President. She was born and raised on the south side of Chicago, Illinois and then educated at Princeton University and Harvard Law School. She returned to Chicago after completing her formal education to work for the law firm Sidley Austin, on the staff of the Mayor of Chicago Richard M. Daley, and for the University of Chicago and the University of Chicago Hospitals. She is the sister of Craig Robinson.
She met Barack while working for Sidley Austin. The couple has endured the trials and tribulations of a politic marriage and celebrity distractions. The family lives on Chicago's South Side in Cook County, Illinois, United States, choosing to remain in Chicago rather than moving to Washington, D.C.. She is now perceived as Barack's closest adviser.
