Scenes from Grant Park

Imagine the biggest crowd you've ever seen in a room, hundreds of people squeezed tight. Imagine the biggest concert you have ever been to, thousands (or tens of thousands) strong, or a Red Sox game at full capacity with 39,000 screaming fans. Now take all that excitement and mass of people and multiply it by a lot, until you reach 240,000. That's how big the crowd was at Grant Park. Gak and I were there, too, among the unticketed masses, waiting, cheering, witnessing history in action.

The unticketed overflow crowd, watching CNN on big screens all over Grant Park.

This design wasn't as simple as it looks, but a coordinated plan of leaving lights on and off.

Expectantly waiting for the results.

There were millions of Obamas, on t-shirts, pins, and posters, all over the park.

People piled onto dumpsters for a view of the big screens.

And even climbed onto the rows of port-a-potty.