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Thousands Brave Cold for Tickets to Obama Farewell Speech

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Thousands Brave Cold for Tickets to Obama Farewell Speech - ABC News

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Obama fans in line as early as 4:30 a.m. for speech tickets | Chicago Sun-Times

Obama fans in line as early as 4:30 a.m. for speech tickets

For many who scored a ticket to President Barack Obama’s farewell address at McCormick Place next week, waking up hours before the Saturday sunrise to brave the frigid cold and winds off Lake Michigan was well worth it.

“I’m so excited. This is a historical moment,” said Tanika Sykes, the first person to receive a ticket to the speech. “I’m just so grateful to be able to witness it.”

Asked what she wanted to hear at Tuesday’s speech, she said: “Hope. I’m ready for the Obama Hope speech to encourage us, to let us know that it’s OK. We’re going to survive, we always do. And it’s going to be a great America.”

Sykes, of south suburban Homewood, said she got in line at 4:30 a.m., though she had to stand outside in the zero-degree weather for about 45 minutes.

Etta McChristian, who proudly said she, like the president, was from the South Side, was also among the first in line.

She and some friends reserved a room at the nearby Hyatt Regency Hotel the night before so they could get in line as soon as possible.

“Whoever the president is, you have some big shoes to fill because, at the end of the day, Barack did a great job,” McChristian said.

The line for tickets snaked through the east building of McCormick Place, out into the frigid cold and back into the convention center’s western building.


Just a few hours after the tickets were distributed for free, they were already for sale on the secondary market.

On Craigslist, a pair of tickets were being sold for as much as $3,000 as of 10 a.m.
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My son and a friend went down to get tix - showed up at 5:30AM and the line was huge- and traffic was a mess.

They let thousands into Mccormick -the line went from the main hall across to the West building and then back down outside the Hyatt, but thousands more had to sit outside in the 2 degree windy weather. He lasted a little over an hour before giving up and salvaging the morning with breakfast at Lou Mitchells.

Boy, Trumps gonna be pissed if he hears about this. It makes his rally attendance look bad, and as we know, he's obsessed with ratings and polls.
 
there are very few events that i'd brave windy 2 degree F weather for. i enjoy having ears and digits. this event would not be on that list.
 
Both my boyfriend and I decided last night to forgo the opportunity. I was thinking that people would begin lining up at 6AM ... HA.
 
I met Obama while working in sunny, warm Indonesia. I'll pass on the cold, history or not. :)
 
Threegoofs said:
Thousands Brave Cold for Tickets to Obama Farewell Speech - ABC News

and

Obama fans in line as early as 4:30 a.m. for speech tickets | Chicago Sun-Times



My son and a friend went down to get tix - showed up at 5:30AM and the line was huge- and traffic was a mess.

They let thousands into Mccormick -the line went from the main hall across to the West building and then back down outside the Hyatt, but thousands more had to sit outside in the 2 degree windy weather. He lasted a little over an hour before giving up and salvaging the morning with breakfast at Lou Mitchells.

Boy, Trumps gonna be pissed if he hears about this. It makes his rally attendance look bad, and as we know, he's obsessed with ratings and polls.
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why would Trump be pissed. Lots of those Obama slurpers didn't bother to vote for the Lying Bitch and that is what made Trump Happy. Trump's rallies had far more attendance than those watching the lying twit
 
brothern said:
Both my boyfriend and I decided last night to forgo the opportunity. I was thinking that people would begin lining up at 6AM ... HA.
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i've found that in Chicago, you can pretty much expect twice as many people at an event as you had initially expected / feared. my GF and i went to the downtown Christmas festival a couple years ago. i got in line to get one of those hot booze ceramic things at a booth, because after navigating so many people that it was hard to move, we both needed one. then i realized that i wasn't actually at the end of the line. i looked back, and saw a line snaking all the way around the bend. and that's when we said "**** this." it was pretty, though, and fun for a minute.
 
Helix said:
i've found that in Chicago, you can pretty much expect twice as many people at an event as you had initially expected / feared. my GF and i went to the downtown Christmas festival a couple years ago. i got in line to get one of those hot booze ceramic things at a booth, because after navigating so many people that it was hard to move, we both needed one. then i realized that i wasn't actually at the end of the line. i looked back, and saw a line snaking all the way around the bend. and that's when we said "**** this." it was pretty, though, and fun for a minute.
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The Christkindlmarket in Daley plaza?
 
I like Obama. I like my ambient temperature being above 2 Fahrenheit more.
 
brothern said:
The Christkindlmarket in Daley plaza?
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yeah, i believe that was the one. this would have been 2014. lots of cool shop stands, neat Christmas-y atmosphere, thousands of people. tons of port-o-pots, too, lol. i don't envy those who had to deal with that part of it.
 
Threegoofs said:
Thousands Brave Cold for Tickets to Obama Farewell Speech - ABC News

and

Obama fans in line as early as 4:30 a.m. for speech tickets | Chicago Sun-Times



My son and a friend went down to get tix - showed up at 5:30AM and the line was huge- and traffic was a mess.

They let thousands into Mccormick -the line went from the main hall across to the West building and then back down outside the Hyatt, but thousands more had to sit outside in the 2 degree windy weather. He lasted a little over an hour before giving up and salvaging the morning with breakfast at Lou Mitchells.

Boy, Trumps gonna be pissed if he hears about this. It makes his rally attendance look bad, and as we know, he's obsessed with ratings and polls.
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I bought a really nice flat screen and built a real nice surround sound system for stuff like this. If I watch his speech I will be wearing my slippers and be drinking coffee out of my favorite mug. I might even eat a warm apple fritter covered in butter with my hot coffee.

I really don't think this will bother Trump.
 
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