Mural in Downtown Chicago

Preparations for Tuesday night's Obama Rally at Chicago's Grant Park. Mayor Richard Daley expects a million people to show up in the area, while the campaign has permit to accommodate 65,000 ticketed guests and 7,500 "participants." An overflow area will be set up. The event, which begins at 8PM, will project election coverage on large screens.

Media crew from all over the world have converged in Chicago to cover the Obama rally.

Roads in and around the park are being closed to prepare for tomorrow's events. The Mayor has requested that all businesses and schools in the area be closed by 3PM tomorrow for security as well as crowd management.

Sen. Obama and Biden, along with his aides, will be following the elections from their suites at the Hyatt across the street from their downtown Chicago HQ before making their way to Grant Park.

Volunteers make a last push to get registered voters to go to the polls on Tuesday, to help them with any last minute queries about voting, as well to just urge them to go to the polls and participate in the process. Calls were bring made to registered voters across the country.

Friends Kanami D'Angelo, 11, who came with her mom from Aiea, Hawaii, and Ricky Romersi, 9, who came with his dad from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, both volunteered for an hour calling people to vote of Obama from the Illinois Headquarters of the Obama Campaign's Phone Bank on Nov. 3.

An artist distributes free Obama-Biden patches outside the campaign's Illionis Phone Bank HQ on Lake st. Chicago.

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