A huge crowd in Grant Park in Chicago erupted in jubilation at the news of Obama's victory. By the tens of thousands, they chanted it — some crying, some holding hands to their faces in disbelief, others clutching shivering children they brought along and kept up late to witness a new chapter in this country's history as the first black president strode onto a stage in front of 125,000 cheering supporters and pledged that the fight was not over.
"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer," President-elect Barack Obama told a crowd that had steadily filled the city's lakefront over the course of the day. "It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.
"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer," President-elect Barack Obama told a crowd that had steadily filled the city's lakefront over the course of the day. "It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.
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