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Obama makes it official: Chicago’s Grant Park on election night.

By  Sun-Times Wire
   
SHARE Obama makes it official: Chicago’s Grant Park on election night.

WASHINGTON–Barack Obama will celebrate election night in Chicago’s Grant Park—providing scenic backdrops of the city–and near where demonstrators gathered during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.

The Grant Park location is down the street from Obama’s national campaign headquarters on Michigan Avenue.

Obama Campaign Announces Location for Election Night Event

CHICAGO – The Obama-Biden campaign today announced that the location for the Election Night event on Tuesday, November 4 will be Chicago’s Grant Park on Hutchinson Field.

Grant Park is regularly used as an open-air venue for concerts, charity events and sporting activities such as the Chicago Marathon and Taste of Chicago.

Additional details will be announced as they become available.

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