Obama campaign plans modest gathering on election night
(MCT) — CHICAGO — Whoever wins the campaign for president a week from Tuesday, this election night is not likely to resemble 2008 on the streets of Chicago.
Four years ago, Chicago police blanketed the streets of downtown as streams of jubilant Barack Obama supporters — a crowd estimated at a quarter-million — flowed into Grant Park to mark the election of America’s first African-American president.
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