Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but....WHO planned it?
I can see all the reasons for being in Chicago because of all the seedy corruption going on there. But why not Philly? Boston? Honolulu? Is Frank Davis alive and told Barry to go get a job in Chitown?
Also, I get all the connections you made and those are all pretty much facts on the record. But the one which I don’t have an actual source for is the first one where Barry is told to go to Chicago. Does this come from his book? (which I’ve simply not bothered to read since I’ve got 1.073 other books ahead of his on my interest list - currently).
I've no source, either. I'm theorizing from the circumstantial evidence.
Frank Marshall Davis was obviously in a position to give Obama names and phone numbers.
Whether Obama was actually motivated by Davis to use these contacts -- or he simply stumbled into the environment coincidentally -- won't ever to be known.