Obama picks Chicago for first major post-presidency appearance

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FORMER US president Barack Obama is due on Monday to make his first major appearance since leaving office, having chosen Chicago, the city where his political career started, to emerge from a three-month hiatus from the public eye.

Mr Obama will meet youth leaders and promote community organising near the same South Side neighbourhoods where his own activism blossomed and propelled him to two terms in the White House that ended with President Donald Trump's inauguration on Jan 20.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who served as Mr Obama's first White House chief of staff, said that he was proud that Mr Obama picked Chicago to make his last speech as president and the first in his post-pr…