President Elect Barack Obama waves to a crowd of 250,000 in Grant Park, Chicago through bullet proof glass after becoming the 44th U.S. President on election night on November 4, 2008. Credit: Amanda Rivkin.
As seen on the jumbo-tron: a campaign worker poses as a stand-in for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama during a lighting check at the site of Obama's Grant Park election night rally in Chicago on November 3, 2008. Credit: Amanda Rivkin.
Demonstrators march through Civic Center Park in downtown Denver, Co. ahead of the Democratic National Convention on August 24, 2008. The Democratic National Convention officially gets underway Monday August 25. Credit: Amanda Rivkin
The shuttered GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin where 2,300 workers were laid off on Christmas, December 24, 2008, in a sign of the collapsing American auto industry and the study progression of American consumers to foreign-made cars. Credit: Amanda Rivkin.
The shuttered GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin where 2,300 workers were laid off on Christmas, December 24, 2008, in a sign of the collapsing American auto industry and the study progression of American consumers to foreign-made cars. Credit: Amanda Rivkin.
A small child on the Washington Mall on January 18, 2009, two days before Barack Obama's historic inauguration as the 44th U.S. President. Credit: Amanda Rivkin/Polaris
CNN declares Obama winner on Grant Park jumbotron. Credit: Amanda Rivkin.
Arlington National Cemetery, America's national cemetery for fallen soldiers, in Arlington, Va. outside the nation's capitol in Washington DC on January 21, 2009, a day after Barack Obama was sworn in as 44th U.S. President, becoming America's first black president. In his inaugural address, Obama referenced Arlington National Cemetery, "just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages." Credit: Amanda Rivkin.
A mother and child before the Ford press presentation at the Detroit Auto Show on January 11, 2009. Credit: Amanda Rivkin.
Always Open, a convenience store in Wicker Park, Chicago, closed forever on February 15, 2009. Credit: Amanda Rivkin/Polaris
Tween revelers as an older woman walks by in Boystown, Chicago during the Gay Pride Parade on June 29, 2008. Credit: Amanda Rivkin
A Code Pink volunteer storms into the Republican National Convention as Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin gave her acceptance speech at the XCel Center in St. Paul, Minn. on September 3, 2008. Credit: Amanda Rivkin/Polaris
Bill Ayers poses for an election day portrait after voting for Barack Obama on Nov. 4, 2008 in Chicago. Credit: Amanda Rivkin.
A man in an Osama Bin Laden T-Shirt at the World's Largest Laundromat in Berwyn, Ill. on July 7, 2008. Credit: Amanda Rivkin
Owner Mike El Sheikh styles a customer's hair at Obama's Hair Design, formerly Ossama's Hair Salon, in downtown Chicago, Ill. on January 9, 2009. Credit: Amanda Rivkin/Agence France Presse
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