Election Night 2008 – Grant Park

Wow.

Frontrunner principal John Liipfert was called in by the Obama campaign to produce the final event of the campaign: the election night celebration in Grant
Park. As many as 250,000 people were in attendance and thousands more gathered in the surrounding blocks to watch returns and to see the first speech to the American public by the President-Elect.

Emotions were high around the park as state after state came in for Obama. We were all surprised by the early results from Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Here are a few highlights from the big show…

John’s profile is captured when he walks behind the screen projecting the returns.

The crowd welcomes our new President and family.

The cut shot.

The whole site.


Watch his historic speech from Grant Park.

Photographer John Kimp assembled some of his beautiful images with sound from the event.

Here are a few of the front pages from around the country.



What an amazing night. Congratulations to everyone who played a roll in this incredibly historic campaign. Congratulations Mr. President-Elect!

Photo Credits- Getty Images