The Daily Background
| Excl. photos of Obama leaving the Hilton after his press conference Friday
by Arlen Parsa
As promised yesterday, though very blurry.
The crowd begins to gather along Wabash behind the Hilton Chicago.
Another small crowd begins to form along East 8th street.
The media was camped out on the north-western corner of Wabash and East 8th.
Biden’s motorcade takes off south down Wabash. Biden was in a white car, but I’m not sure if this is the one he was in or not. There were several of these white sedans carrying his entourage.
You can faintly see a Secret Service agent in one of Biden’s motorcade’s SUVs holding a gun in this picture.
Just before Obama steps out, Secret Service agents gather outside the Hilton’s South West service entrance. Another uses binoculars to scope out nearby buildings for snipers.
Obama steps out, wearing a blue tie, waving to the crowd, which had broken out into a spontaneous chant of “Yes we did! Yes we did!”
Another terrible blurry photo of Obama waving as he steps behind a Secret Service SUV.
The crowd surges past the police line to get a better look at the black SUV he’s in as it drives away.
