Bennett grew up in the middle-class neighborhood of West Chatham on Chicago's South Side. His mother, Lisa Bennett, worked for the Illinois Attorney General.
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His father, Ken Williams-Bennett, was an aide to the late Chicago mayor Harold Washington and then-Senator Barack Obama.
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Chancelor Johnathan Bennett (born April 16, 1993), known professionally as Chance the Rapper, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer.