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A crowd of 125,000 people jammed Grant Park in Chicago cheering the announcement.
Barack Obama elected 44th President of the United States.
Barack Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois,
shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by
winning election as the first African-American president
of the United States.
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Thousands of participants marched from Sunset Junction, through the heart of Hollywood, all the way to West Hollywood. Drew Barrymore met the march on San Vincente and Santa Monica for some inspirational words.
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At a press conference in Chicago today, President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden officially announced key members of their economic team, naming Timothy Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury and Lawrence Summers as Director of the National Economic Council.