Our son Chris, his wife, Kat, and his family (2 daughters and infant son) went to the rally in Grant Park - Chicago -- to learn the election results and to celebrate the victory of Barack Obama. This is what he wrote about the experience:

"I held my four-year-old daughter hovering above the pee-speckled porta-potty seat. "Don't pee on dad," I warned her, and the crowd erupted.Outside, the Jumbotrons displayed what we had all come to see. Barack Obama was the next president of the United States. There is something truly symbolic in that moment, in that place. Grant Park, 40 years later, and the pendulum swings toward hope. The basic needs of family outweigh whatever might be transpiring in the world, but to be there at that moment within the city of my father's father as my four month old son slept on my wife's chest could not be matched by any livingroom, any bar, anywhere else in the world. I didn't want to go all that way from Lake County after work, but my wife insisted, packed sandwiches and juice boxes, and we were off. And when my grandchildren ask, "Where were you when...?" I'll have a great story to embarrass their mother with!

Art Thieme