OBAMA APPEARS FOR JURY DUTY AT CHICAGO COURT

Former president Barack Obama showed up to a downtown Chicago courthouse for jury duty on Wednesday morning. The 44th president’s motorcade — considerably shorter than the one he had when he lived in the White House — left his home in the Kenwood neighbourhood on the city’s South Side and arrived at the Richard J. Daley Center shortly after 10 a.m. He was ultimately dismissed from the pool. Had he been chosen, Obama would have had to watch a decades-old video in which a much younger Lester Holt, who was a local news anchor before he became a national news anchor, explain the ins and outs of jury duty. Obama would have also been in line to receive the $17.20 a day that jurors are paid for performing their civic duty.