At Pier's End
The Aon Ballroom, an orb-shaped space with exposed brick and a setting sun of round bulbs streaming from the ceiling, sat at the end of Navy Pier -- Chicago's most popular tourist destination, a disconcerting fact to the city dwellers who largely shunned it. Though not on a night like this. Democratic powerbrokers streamed in, dressed to the nines or coming as they were, corralled to the left for Kwame Raoul's election night party, and to the right for JB Pritzker's. The governor's supporters were as diverse as the corners of the city they came from -- young and old, mostly not white. The rainbow coalition that continued in America's third-largest city even after its most famous booster, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, left for the rainbow in the sky. "Looks like it's going to be a convincing win," a correspondent on MSNOW said of the Jon Ossof race, filling the ballroom with cheers. The Ferris wheel, the trinkets for sale, the chain restaurants were for the t...
