Click to play videoChicago: The US President-elect has many friends and advisors in Chicago, but a few names keep coming up, people who might follow Barack Obama from the Windy city to the White House.
If public housing is on the president elect’s mind Valerie Jarrett who runs a firm that's been appointed by a federal court to oversee the desegregation of Chicago’s public housing could be his may be his secretary of housing and urban development.
If the president- elect needs help on an issue involving education he's got another Chicago friend who could help.
"We have a moral obligation to come in and do something dramatically better for those children now, we cannot wait,” says CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser.
And Arne Duncan the new chief of Chicago public schools might be secretary of education.
Every president needs someone to oversee white house staff and decide who gets in to see him-- and who doesn’t this could be the gatekeeper Illinois congressman Rahm Emmanuel, who worked in the Clinton white house.
Of course many state and national figures who could fill key positions in the new administration and right now it's a guessing game. Nobody really knows who will be chosen except the president elect himself.
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