Election Day in Chicago

November 4, 2008.

A day history will be made.
A day we will be able to tell our children about.
A day Allison and I will physically be able to witness.
A day we are proud to be Americans.

As I walked out of my building this at 7am, an hour after the polls opened, and there was a line out the door and around the corner. As I got on the bus everyone was dressed in their red, white and blue, checking their iphones and blackberries for the latest news.

As I rode the bus and walked through the downtown loop, camera crews were all over the place taking in this special day. Everyone had their coffee cup in hand and the Chicago Tribune in other hand. The city is covered in American flags from head to toe, it is stunning. I had to stop and pinch myself... we are here in Chicago for one of the most amazing and influential times in our history.

The city has requested downtown offices to close at 3pm. So today we are having early dismissal (I feel like we are in school again and everyone is on the edge of their seat with excitement). As soon as I am off, I am going to wait in the long line and exercise my right to vote. I am so proud to be an American and to be in Chicago today.

As you may know Senator Obama is going to have his election night rally at Grant Park in Chicago this evening. Hopefully we will be celebrating his presidential victory. They only released 70,000 tickets to the event but are expecting well over a million people to be there. We unfortunately do not have tickets but are still going to take part in the rally. It is going to be insane, but we are only going to be apart of this once.

We will report back tomorrow. Now back to work with all McCain supporting hedge fund colleagues.


Jen