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Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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Joy, pride surge in Chicago

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, November 5, 2008

CHICAGO — Renee Pearcey anxiously awaited voting results from her home state of Florida — an electoral battleground — in Grant Park on Tuesday night.

But long before the Sunshine State was called, the show was over.

At 10 p.m. local time, Sen. Barack Obama had officially been projected the next president of the United States, eliciting roaring cheers from the hundreds of thousands who had assembled here for an unprecedented election-night rally that was part Woodstock, part Fourth of July.

While 70,000 ticketed guests were admitted to Hutchinson Field to see the...

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