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A Clinton Corner in Obama's Home Town
By Kari Lydersen

CHICAGO -- Chicago may be Barack Obama's backyard, but at a Latino Educators for Hillary dinner in the mostly Mexican neighborhood of Pilsen Wednesday night, attendees had harsh words for him.

"Arrogant," "impulsive," "hypocritical," and "anti-immigrant" just were some of the insults lobbed at Obama at an event hosted by Danny Solis, the local Pilsen alderman and, yes, brother of Hillary Clinton campaign manager Patty Solis Doyle. (Solis himself described Obama as "Okay, but not ready yet.")

Both the Clinton and Obama camps are vying hard for the Latino vote in the week leading up to Super Tuesday. And both candidates also have Chicago connections that make Illinois, with one of the country's larger Latino populations (5 percent of the electorate) and a long history of powerful Latino politicians in Chicago, look like fertile ground.

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