Barack Obama marries fellow lawyer Michelle Robinson in Chicago, Illinois in 1992.
At the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin, Obama met Michelle Robinson, a young lawyer assigned to be his mentor. The pair began dating soon after. He and Michelle married on October 3, 1992. They relocated to Kenwood, a neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. Several years later, Barack and Michelle Obama had two daughters: Malia (born in 1998) and Sasha (born in 2004). (born 2001).
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