Former President Barack Obama stopped by Lilydale First Baptist Church in Roseland on Wednesday morning to catch up with his old friend, Pastor Alvin Love — and to share words of advice with a new generation of community organizers.
“I first set foot in this space before probably all of you were born,” Obama told 30 students from the University of Chicago and Columbia University gathered around him in the church basement. “I had moved to Chicago. I was intent on changing the world. I didn’t quite know how.”
