The crowd gathered, lots of families, and supporters young, old, and in-between. I prefer to think of myself in this group. I saw Jason from MyManMitt (I'm sure his post will be up soon) who brought his son, and met the American Federalist blogger.
The media started arriving, looks like all the major Chicago TV stations were there, with the political reporters clustered behind--picked out CBS2's Mike Flannery. 
I was about 6 rows back, but since I'm short I headed upstairs to capture the crowd. Sen. Rutherford and Speaker Hastert made the intro. As Governor Romney strode in, the room erupted in cheers and applause. A woman shouted Viva Romney!
He made a few remarks geared to Chicago on this Super Bowl Sunday, mentioning his dad's cousin, whom the family referred to as uncle was his namesake, Milton, who went by Mitt--a University of Chicago graduate and quarterback for the Chicago Bears in the '20's. He joked about only looking at the polls he liked, but mentioned one poll in California had him tied, and another had him leading McCain. And despite McCain receiving the endorsements of every Republican establishment figure in Maine, he won a resounding victory--53% to McCain's 21, who barely held off Ron Paul for 2nd. [people drove through a sleet storm in the heaviest turnout there since Ronald Reagan ran for the first time in 1980]Governor Romney launched into his stump speech---that Washington was broken, so many problems unresolved, so many promises not kept.
He promised to rebuild the House of Reagan, and the crowd roared "Romney, Romney, Romney!" and lifted their children up on their shoulders so they could see.It was a great day.
Go Mitt! Come on Illinois--vote Romney on Super Tuesday! The best choice for America's future.A Mitt-booster from Oak Park:
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