Anyone have a ticket who is not taking anyone and willing to escort someone (like Equipoise) who really wants to go?
Yeah, I’m one of those people. I didn’t sign up for tickets. I’ve got one waiting for me.
Like I said, no way in hell I’m going. I’ll be busy taking down the office and sleeping.
Sorry, I didn’t realize that. Very cool.
Aw, you should go anyway. There’s always Wednesday to do stuff and sleep. You ARE one of the people who deserve to be there.
Oh, not me. No way would I go in and leave my husband standing on the other side of the fence! 
We’ve been so busy inside the park that I honestly have not noticed anything that’s been done for the people outside the park. I know Daley at one point wanted to put speakers up but I don’t know if the city is going to do so. The Chicago Police Superintendent is encouraging people to find a place in their neighborhood (friend’s house, bar, etc) to watch from rather than go down to Grant Park. Based on that I don’t think the city will put anything up, but with Daley you never know.
Like I said before, TPTB have kept us in the dark on a lot of things so far. I’ll do some looking around today and I’ll try to post after our meeting later today.
This disappoints me. There should be a celebration for the entire city, anyone who wants to come. I have no problems with there being a closed-off area for volunteers and people with tickets. Those people should be closer to Obama. But we want to be part of it too, even if we’re on the other side of the fence. I don’t want to be somewhere with just a few other people. Celebrating something so historical in a tiny group isn’t the same as celebrating something so historical with a crowd who are all just as ecstatic as you are.
And besides, we don’t have a local bar or any friend’s house to go to. We don’t go to bars and we don’t have friends living here. We could pick somewhere else to go, but we don’t want to. We want to feel like we’re part of Chicago with a large group of Chicagoans, not go somewhere where don’t know anybody and just be part of a small group of strangers. It won’t mean as much being with a small group of strangers. It’ll mean everything to be with a mass of fellow Chicagoans. I don’t know if that makes sense, but anyway. I’m going down there. To hell with the Chicago Police Superintendent. If there are no speakers or video screens, I’ll have my portable TV with me.
Come on Daley, you had the right idea with your million prediction. Let Obama throw the party for his people in his enclosure. You go ahead and throw the party for the rest of us. (that means video screens!)
Sorry, my guest pass is already spoken for 
I mean, really, with all the folks that are going to show up that don’t have tickets, the tickets are just to get into roped-off sections. Go and show up if you want. I’m sure you’ll have a blast.
By the way, one of my volunteers pulled me aside and asked if I had a ticket. I told him I had never even seen one. He kept prying more and more. He already had one. Yes, he felt the need to show it to me, too.
People around here are excited, I tell you.
I’d like to throw in a “me too,” if anyone with a ticket doesn’t already have a guest. Inside or outside the fence, I’ll probably go, but I don’t have anything like a portable TV or radio, so outside the fence, with no jumbotrons or loudspeakers, I’d be pretty bored. 
Some handy info I’ve found:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-obama-rally-qanov02,0,5894064.story
http://yourcta.com/news/ctaandpress.wu?action=displayarticledetail&articleid=105458
Can’t find anything on whether there will be jumbotrons, though.
Sorry, the other slot on my ticket is accounted for several times over again.
They must be doing something for the folks outside the fence. I mean come on, they already have speakers, etc. for the Petrillo Bandshell and Millenium Park - I don’t know whether they normally take them down at the end of the summer, but it’s not like they’d have to acquire new equipment or something.
A friend of mine has tickets. Thing is she is decidedly and admittedly apolitical. So I jumped when she mentioned it asking for them. She said she was going. While certainly her prerogative I was still like, “But, but but…you don’t even give a shit!” Didn’t sway her.
Tickets were supposed to go out between 6-7pm… Anyone get theirs yet?
Ticket received! :):)
To answer my last question…
I GOT MY TICKET!!!
I was worried since I didn’t get yesterday’s e-mail, but I got my ticket today. I’m so excited!!!
Just got mine @ 6:58. It’s very pretty, and it’s a graphic, so there’s not much to report. It looks kind of old timey, like an engraved ticket to the World’s Fair or something. It does indeed have my name on it, and a barcode which I assume will be scanned at entry to avoid duplicate tickets.
A note reads:
Yay!
ETA: I feel kinda like Charlie Buckett!
I was getting pretty worried for a couple of minutes because as of 6:58, I hadn’t received a ticket. I rechecked at exactly 7:00 to find the ticket waiting.
Why, yes, I am a little neurotic, why do you ask?
Got my ticket!
I kind of chuckled at the warning not to reproduce it since it has to be printed. I know what they meant but it still made me laugh.
I was listening to the Roe Conn show on the radio coming home today and he had Amy Jacobson on there. Ms. Jacobson said that they were setting up Jumbotrons for the people outside the “main event” on the campaign’s dime.
Got mine, too!
Funky - it’s bar-coded. I wonder whether they will have bar code scanners to know whether people attempt to use duplicates? Seems likely.
Oh you folks have no idea what you’re in for party wise. I drive right past the area on my way home every night, there’s so much going up and on that it will blow you away. It should be something to see.
I’m so @#$%#&*ing jealous of you ticketholders, I could just punch the screen. If I could get there early OR if I had Weds off, I’d go to hang out in the loser lot. Since they made it so difficult to get there, I guess I’m looking for a bar or something.