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Chicago Tours with Geoffrey Baer
Special | 1h 30m 20s
The eyes of the world were on Chicago's Lakefront on election night 2008 as tens of thousands of people gathered there to celebrate with President-Elect Barack Obama. Chicago's lakefront is unique in the world. It's a seventeen-mile-long people's paradise that belongs to all of us.
Aired: 10/15/08
Video has closed captioning.Chicago's Lakefront was made possible by our generous sponsor, Harris Bank.
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