AP:
You'll need a ticket if you want to attend Barack Obama's outdoor Election Night event in Chicago.
The campaign sent an e-mail Tuesday inviting only supporters from Obama's home state of Illinois. To get tickets, people need to sign up at a Web link for a printable ticket that'll be e-mailed before the Nov. 4 event in Grant Park. Only one request per person is allowed. Each ticket admits two people.
As of late Tuesday afternoon, it appeared there already was a wait list for tickets.
Gates open at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 4 for the event, which will take place in a field at the south end of the lakefront park.
Is that place going to be packed on Election Night or what? Well
CPR has more on that:
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says he hopes more than a million people will come downtown on election night. Recently, a city official said the site of Barack Obama's election night rally would only hold 70,000.
Chicago officials have been quiet about how they'll handle an overflow of Obama supporters. But, Mayor Daley says he's confident people who attend the open-air rally will be safe and secure. He says the U.S. Secret Service will bear the chief responsibility for monitoring public safety.
DALEY: We don't screen anybody in the park. No, no. That is up to the Secret Service in regards to their venue.
A spokeswoman with the city's emergency management office says there will be a tight security bubble at Grant Park. Jennifer Martinez says the office will follow the lead of the Secret Service, FBI, and Chicago police.
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