In Chicago, on 53rd & South Dorchester, just in front of a Subway sandwich franchise, there is a rock. An unordinary rock. It is a simple rock with a metallic plaque installed in it. The place itself is, at first sight, unmemorable. At the most, it is not the first romantic place that would come to mind. But it is a place where President Barack Obama, then a simple Ivy League graduate lawyer Barack Obama, sealed his conquest of his future wife Ivy League graduate lawyer, Michelle Robinson.
On the stone, the inscription on plaque reads an excerpt from Barack Obama's memoir: