--- title: President Obama to Give Farewell Speech From Chicago description: President Obama will give his farewell address from Chicago on Jan. 10, in what will likely be his last public appeal in office canonical: https://time.com/4620220/president-obama-chicago-speech-obamacare/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-02T14:49:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:30:42.070Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Obama Will Give His Farewell Speech From Chicago og:description: His last speech before he leaves office og:url: https://time.com/4620220/president-obama-chicago-speech-obamacare/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e7c822347ac5db9/6988b43a656a3f168ebce456/obama-last-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: President Obama Returns from Hawaii Vacation og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Obama Will Give His Farewell Speech From Chicago twitter:description: His last speech before he leaves office twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e7c822347ac5db9/6988b43a656a3f168ebce456/obama-last-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Obama Will Give His Farewell Speech From Chicago > Sponsored content. 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President Barack Obama waves as he and the first family exit Air Force One after arriving at Joint Base Andrews on Jan. 2, 2017. Pete Marovich—Pool/Getty Images  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Jan 2, 2017 2:49 PM UTC President Obama will give his farewell address from Chicago on Jan. 10, in what will likely be his last public appeal in office to preserve the signature achievements of his presidency like the Affordable Care Act. Many of those achievements, such as gains in the fight against climate change and the Affordable Care Act, are under attack from congressional Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump. In an [email to supporters](http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/us/politics/obama-chicago-farewell-speech.html?%5Fr=1), Obama wrote that the address would be “a chance to say thank you for this amazing journey, to celebrate the ways you’ve changed this country for the better these past eight years, and to offer some thoughts on where we all go from here.” Obama said he was following the precedent set by George Washington, who established a peaceful transfer of power as a hallmark of the American government and also wrote the first presidential farewell address 220 years ago. Many Presidents have given farewell addresses, including George W. Bush in 2009. “Since 2009, we’ve faced our fair share of challenges, and come through them stronger,” Obama wrote Monday in [the email to supporters](http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/02/politics/barack-obama-farewell-address-chicago/). “That’s because we have never let go of a belief that has guided us ever since our founding — our conviction that, together, we can change this country for the better.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4620220/president-obama-chicago-speech-obamacare/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4620220/president-obama-chicago-speech-obamacare/"},"headline":"President Obama Will Give His Farewell Speech From Chicago","datePublished":"2017-01-02T14:49:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:30:42.070Z","description":"His last speech before he leaves office","url":"https://time.com/4620220/president-obama-chicago-speech-obamacare/","keywords":["White House","Obama","chicago","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e7c822347ac5db9/6988b43a656a3f168ebce456/obama-last-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e7c822347ac5db9/6988b43a656a3f168ebce456/obama-last-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Obama Returns from Hawaii Vacation","caption":"President Obama Returns from Hawaii Vacation","creditText":"Pete Marovich—Pool/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4620220/president-obama-chicago-speech-obamacare/","name":"President Obama Will Give His Farewell Speech From Chicago"}}]}] ```