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‚  Twitter highlight of the weekend: Scott Smith tweets: If the NYT's Thomas Friedman, Obama adviser David Axelrod and pol fundraiser Tony Rezko were in the same room, could you tell who was who?" Newspaper highlight of the weekend: Obama may have to go cold turkey with his Blackberry.

If you're like me, you've been observing the recent tumult of the stock market from the sidelines. I'm more of a savings account kind of guy than a day trading kind of guy. But it does occassionally look like it'd be fun just to see what happens.

If you first heard The Hood Internet on Eight Forty-Eight this morning, you'd be wise to head over to their site and download their Chicago-centric mixtape, The Hood Internet vs Chicago.

If you first heard The Hood Internet on Eight Forty-Eight this morning, you'd be wise to head over to their site and download their Chicago-centric mixtape, The Hood Internet vs Chicago.

It's official, Grant Park was essentially the center of the universe last night. And our Flickr group is evidence that many of you were there.

Chicago didn't get the party it expected during the baseball season, but it's sure making up for it tonight. Check out all these election frivolities across the city. And let us know how you are marking this historic night in the comments section below. Slideshow after the jump!

Here's some quick video of Senator Obama voting with his family earlier today at his polling place in Chicago's Hyde Park.‚  It's been featured on every network around the globe.‚  But what you didn't see is the swarm of media from around the world gathered to witness the event.‚  Crews from as far