"We did it!" screamed a female staffer at the TV One booth on Tuesday night in Chicago's Grant Park, where the television network that appeals to an African American audience hosted live coverage. "Who's your president!" screamed one of the anchors, who subsequently danced in his seat to Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered.
Thirty miles north of Barack Obama's historic election-night rally, students at Lake Forest College watched election coverage on a projector screen in the Mohr Student Center. The event was hosted by United Black Association (UBA) while other students watched the election numbers roll in live in the Deerpath Lounge, which was reserved by the Politics 224 class.
Comments overheard from the audience and media at Obama's Grant Park election night rally were the best way to gauge emotions.
Prior to entering, the line, which stretched down Michigan Avenue, ignited with energy, as headlines such as Obama's Ohio victory spread like a chain reaction within seconds.
Supporters of Barack Obama -- many from Chicago and its suburbs, and others from all around the world -- gathered in Chicago's Grant Park Tuesday night to watch the election and eventually celebrate his victory.
One woman, a student at Columbia University in New York, claimed to have purposefully missed a flight from Chicago to New York in order to see the speech.
The following are a selection of reports to Lake Forest College's Public Safety office between the dates of Wednesday, Oct. 29 and Tuesday, Nov. 4.
To report a crime, dial (847) 735-5555, or use the anonymous crime reporting page on the Public Safety webpage at www.
Sponsored by The John and Christine Gates Center for Leadership and Personal Growth, a panel of three Lake Forest College professors offered non-partisan political information to over 100 people in the Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel on the evening of Oct. 29.
RUMOR: You and Lake Forest College President Steve Schutt dressed up for the Nov. 1 Halloween-themed All-Campus Party as hippies.
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