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...Among Obama's guests at an election night rally in Chicago's Grant park was Law School Professor Laurence H. Tribe '62, who said he was "ecstatic" at his former student's victory. "I couldn't be more excited—for him ,for the country for the world," said Tribe in between a conversation with Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill. "I think this is a great moment in American history, and a new chapter is about to begin...
Obama Wins: Let the Parties Really Begin! 11 p.m. E.T. There's a light breeze, it's slightly chilly, and the sky is clear. Throngs of people have descended onto downtown Chicago for the epic presidential election of Barack Obama. One of them is Freddie Arnett, a 51-year-old Chicago maintenance supervisor who, along with his wife, stands on this city's main boulevard, Michigan Avenue, angling to get inside Grant Park, where Obama is scheduled to speak. "I'm just glad to have been alive to be a part of it," Arnett says. His expectations for a possible...
Uyvonne Page, 59, is among the crowd on Michigan Avenue after getting up early to vote. She says she set three alarms for Tuesday, starting at 3 a.m., so she could arrive at her South Side Chicago polling station by 5 a.m. Page, a part-time artist, says she donated $35 to Obama's presidential campaign...
...called out, folks in the condos along Michigan Avenue screamed. And of course, so did people waiting on Michigan Avenue. There was even a McCain supporter in the crowd, Jack Nagle. His daughter is a Democrat and hard-core Obama supporter. "It makes dinner interesting," he says. "But in Chicago, you've just got to take your licks and keep moving. Obama's going to be President, and for that, all I can say is congrats...
...celebrations are going on all over the country, though they are likely not as big as Chicago's. A standing-room crowd went wild and wilder in the ballroom of a Hilton hotel in downtown Cleveland as the number 270 got closer and closer. Meanwhile, about 45 excited students packed into a dormitory lounge on the Drake University campus in Iowa to watch election results roll in on CNN, nibbling on red, white and blue food (red salsa, graham crackers with white frosting and blue - O.K., technically purple - grapes) and drank red and blue Hawaiian punch. "It's just...