President Obama's Farewell Address

 --written by Stephanie Taylor

President Barack Obama plans to travel to Chicago to give his farewell address. 

Press Secretary Josh Earnest shared today in the White House at the White House Press Briefing, 

  "Well, President Obama is going to go back to his hometown, go back to the place where he began his career in public service -- a community, a city that was so supportive of him throughout his career in public service. 

     And there is a unique story to President Obama’s public service having started out as a community organizer and somebody whose first job in public service wasn’t in politics, per Senate -- at least it didn't involve running for office -- but was actually focused on trying to help people in the economically disadvantaged communities advocate for themselves.

     And that commitment to fighting for working people is something that has motivated President Obama from his earliest days as a community organizer to his last days as President of the United States.  And so it’s a fitting bookend that he would go back to that city where he got his start to make a speech like this."

Intelligent Luxury is waiting for the White House Press Office to confirm the locale of the President's delivery of the speech.