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Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 Voters lined up before the polls opened on 71st and Paxson in Chicago's South Shore Neighborhood. People noted that they had never seen lines like this in Chicago. The 2008 Presidential election came to an end on November 4 as South Side residents cast their votes at poll booths throughout the South Side of Chicago. The stakes were high as the country had endured eight years of Republican rule. Barack Obama won the general election in a sound beating of John McCain. The reverberations were felt all over the world, but perhaps nowhere more strongly and personally than on the street corners, pool halls and voting lines of the South Side. Barack moved to Hyde Park in Chicago after he attended Harvard Law School and became the first African-American President of the United States.

Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 The 2008 Presidential election came to an end on November 4 as South Side residents cast their votes at poll booths throughout the South Side of Chicago. The stakes were high as the country had endured eight years of Republican rule. Barack Obama won the general election in a sound beating of John McCain. The reverberations were felt all over the world, but perhaps nowhere more strongly and personally than on the street corners, pool halls and voting lines of the South Side. Barack moved to Hyde Park in Chicago after he attended Harvard Law School and became the first African-American President of the United States.

Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 Voters lined up before the polls opened on 71st and Paxson in Chicago's South Shore Neighborhood.

Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 In front of a Salon at 628 E. 75th St. in Chicago's South Shore Neighborhood. The 2008 Presidential election came to an end on November 4 as South Side residents cast their votes at poll booths throughout the South Side of Chicago. The stakes were high as the country had endured eight years of Republican rule. Barack Obama won the general election in a sound beating of John McCain. The reverberations were felt all over the world, but perhaps nowhere more strongly and personally than on the street corners, pool halls and voting lines of the South Side. Barack moved to Hyde Park in Chicago after he attended Harvard Law School and became the first African-American President of the United States.

Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 The 2008 Presidential election came to an end on November 4 as South Side residents cast their votes at poll booths throughout the South Side of Chicago. The stakes were high as the country had endured eight years of Republican rule. Barack Obama won the general election in a sound beating of John McCain. The reverberations were felt all over the world, but perhaps nowhere more strongly and personally than on the street corners, pool halls and voting lines of the South Side. Barack moved to Hyde Park in Chicago after he attended Harvard Law School and became the first African-American President of the United States.

Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 Sallie Bates, 91, votes at a school in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.

Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 Susan Power, a resident of 7321 S. Shore Drive is a polling judge. She said this was going to be her last year working election days.

Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 The Five Star Certified Foods Store on 71st St. on Chicago's South Side. The 2008 Presidential election came to an end on November 4 as South Side residents cast their votes at poll booths throughout the South Side of Chicago. The stakes were high as the country had endured eight years of Republican rule. Barack Obama won the general election in a sound beating of John McCain. The reverberations were felt all over the world, but perhaps nowhere more strongly and personally than on the street corners, pool halls and voting lines of the South Side. Barack moved to Hyde Park in Chicago after he attended Harvard Law School and became the first African-American President of the United States.

Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 A poster for Andre Martin Thapedi, a Chicago politician hangs on a fence in the Englewood Neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.The 2008 Presidential election came to an end on November 4 as South Side residents cast their votes at poll booths throughout the South Side of Chicago. The stakes were high as the country had endured eight years of Republican rule. Barack Obama won the general election in a sound beating of John McCain. The reverberations were felt all over the world, but perhaps nowhere more strongly and personally than on the street corners, pool halls and voting lines of the South Side. Barack moved to Hyde Park in Chicago after he attended Harvard Law School and became the first African-American President of the United States.

Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 Andrew Hunter holds a sign up at the corner of 79th St. and the Dan Ryan Expressway on Chicago's South Side. The 2008 Presidential election came to an end on November 4 as South Side residents cast their votes at poll booths throughout the South Side of Chicago. The stakes were high as the country had endured eight years of Republican rule. Barack Obama won the general election in a sound beating of John McCain. The reverberations were felt all over the world, but perhaps nowhere more strongly and personally than on the street corners, pool halls and voting lines of the South Side. Barack moved to Hyde Park in Chicago after he attended Harvard Law School and became the first African-American President of the United States.

Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 Melissa Knight said she couldn't vote in the election because she is homeless and does not have an official address. She was standing and begging for money at the corner of 79th and Stony Island Ave. on Chicago's South Side. The 2008 Presidential election came to an end on November 4 as South Side residents cast their votes at poll booths throughout the South Side of Chicago. The stakes were high as the country had endured eight years of Republican rule. Barack Obama won the general election in a sound beating of John McCain. The reverberations were felt all over the world, but perhaps nowhere more strongly and personally than on the street corners, pool halls and voting lines of the South Side. Barack moved to Hyde Park in Chicago after he attended Harvard Law School and became the first African-American President of the United States.

Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 Donnell Moore sells laundry bags at the corner of 79th and the Dan Ryan Expressway on Chicago's South Side. The 2008 Presidential election came to an end on November 4 as South Side residents cast their votes at poll booths throughout the South Side of Chicago. The stakes were high as the country had endured eight years of Republican rule. Barack Obama won the general election in a sound beating of John McCain. The reverberations were felt all over the world, but perhaps nowhere more strongly and personally than on the street corners, pool halls and voting lines of the South Side. Barack moved to Hyde Park in Chicago after he attended Harvard Law School and became the first African-American President of the United States.

Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 Posing for a picture at 628 E. 75th St. in Chicago's South Shore Neighborhood. The 2008 Presidential election came to an end on November 4 as South Side residents cast their votes at poll booths throughout the South Side of Chicago. The stakes were high as the country had endured eight years of Republican rule. Barack Obama won the general election in a sound beating of John McCain. The reverberations were felt all over the world, but perhaps nowhere more strongly and personally than on the street corners, pool halls and voting lines of the South Side. Barack moved to Hyde Park in Chicago after he attended Harvard Law School and became the first African-American President of the United States.

Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 View looking west at Sunset of the South Shore Neighborhood from the 7321 S. Shore Drive cooperative building.

Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 Rothschild Liquors on 63rd St. just east of Cottage Grove in the Woodlawn Neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.

Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 The 63rd St. Pool Room on 63rd St. just west of Cottage Grove. The 2008 Presidential election came to an end on November 4 as South Side residents cast their votes at poll booths throughout the South Side of Chicago. The stakes were high as the country had endured eight years of Republican rule. Barack Obama won the general election in a sound beating of John McCain. The reverberations were felt all over the world, but perhaps nowhere more strongly and personally than on the street corners, pool halls and voting lines of the South Side. Barack moved to Hyde Park in Chicago after he attended Harvard Law School and became the first African-American President of the United States.

Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 "Minority is the majority "look out" Here we Come" The 63rd St. Pool Room on 63rd St. just west of Cottage Grove. The 2008 Presidential election came to an end on November 4 as South Side residents cast their votes at poll booths throughout the South Side of Chicago. The stakes were high as the country had endured eight years of Republican rule. Barack Obama won the general election in a sound beating of John McCain. The reverberations were felt all over the world, but perhaps nowhere more strongly and personally than on the street corners, pool halls and voting lines of the South Side. Barack moved to Hyde Park in Chicago after he attended Harvard Law School and became the first African-American President of the United States.

Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 A backdrop of Barack Obama on Roosevelt Road near Grant Park in Chicago's South Loop. The 2008 Presidential election came to an end on November 4 as South Side residents cast their votes at poll booths throughout the South Side of Chicago. The stakes were high as the country had endured eight years of Republican rule. Barack Obama won the general election in a sound beating of John McCain. The reverberations were felt all over the world, but perhaps nowhere more strongly and personally than on the street corners, pool halls and voting lines of the South Side. Barack moved to Hyde Park in Chicago after he attended Harvard Law School and became the first African-American President of the United States.

Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 Ken Smikle celebrates the acceptance speech of Barack Obama on the night of the election. Publisher and entrepreneur Kenneth Albert Smikle was born on January 3, 1952 in Harlem, New York to Mary Alice Dobbins Smikle and Dr. Kenneth Raymond Smikle, a college dean. Smikle attended Harlem's P.S. 123 (Mahalia Jackson School), R.A. Vanwyck Junior High School and graduated from Benjamin Cardozo High School in Bay Side, Queens in 1970. Smikle, who played jazz trombone and wanted to arrange music attended Queensborough Community College, CUNY's York College and Queens College where he took radio and television classes and edited the Black Eyed Journal.

Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 Chicago, Illinois USA - 2008 Barack Obama giving his acceptance speech at the Hilton on Michigan Ave. in Chicago. The 2008 Presidential election came to an end on November 4 as South Side residents cast their votes at poll booths throughout the South Side of Chicago. The stakes were high as the country had endured eight years of Republican rule. Barack Obama won the general election in a sound beating of John McCain. The reverberations were felt all over the world, but perhaps nowhere more strongly and personally than on the street corners, pool halls and voting lines of the South Side. Barack moved to Hyde Park in Chicago after he attended Harvard Law School and became the first African-American President of the United States.

Chicago, Illinois USA - The 2008 Presidential election came to an end on November 4 as South Side residents cast their votes at poll booths throughout the South Side of Chicago. The stakes were high as the country had endured eight years of Republican rule. Barack Obama won the general election in a sound beating of John McCain. The reverberations were felt all over the world, but perhaps nowhere more strongly and personally than on the street corners, pool halls and voting lines of the South Side. Barack moved to Hyde Park in Chicago after he attended Harvard Law School and became the first African-American President of the United States.