The Fairmont Hotel in the heart of downtown Chicago is one of the city’s top rated hotels. It’s where select VIP spend their nights while visiting Chicago for very important business. It’s also where one of the International Olympic Committee advisory panels stayed while evaluating Chicago for the 2016 Summer Olympics. On a good night the hotel will cost you just over $200, for a room. Tonight the Fairmont is playing host to the man who wants to become Illinois’ next US Senator.<\/p>\n
The soundtrack for tonight’s rock star reception, includes the latest hit music from Lady Gaga, “Let’s Dance” and Black Eyed Peas, “Tonight’s Gonna Be A Good Night.” Music that is no doubt trying to pump up the the mood for a victory celebration here tonight.<\/p>\n
More than two hours since the polls closed in Illinois, the ballroom in the basement of the Fairmont is finally getting crowded. Roughly several hundred Alexi Giannoulias supporters, many in their 20s and 30s who have volunteered for the campaign. Outside the ballroom there are stacks of t-shirts for sale, that read 20ALEXI10, for $20. Bumper stickers and buttons are selling for $2. Front and center in the ballroom is the stage and screen plastered with the words “Jobs. The BIG Issue.” \u00a0A message Giannoulias clearly plans to use to strike a chord with voters, if he wins tonight’s primary.<\/p>\n
While the booze is flowing freely in the ballroom, Giannoulias remains upstairs keeping a close eye on tonight’s election results \u00a0from a private suite on the 37th floor of the hotel,with his fiance, Tara Flocco, who works for a public relations firm in Chicago.<\/p>\n
Democratic US Senate candidate Alexi\u00a0Giannoulias, 33,\u00a0has been the noted\u00a0frontrunner\u00a0in the democratic primary campaign since he announced he would run for Barack\u00a0Obama’s\u00a0old senate seat. \u00a0Giannoulias\u00a0currently serves as \u00a0State Treasurer, elected in 2006. Before that he worked as the VP and senior loan officer for Broadway Bank, his family owned community bank in Chicago. \u00a0A bank that has come under the fire \u00a0in recent weeks for mismanaging millions in bad real estate investments. The latest records filed with\u00a0the FDIC show the bank lost 75 million dollars in 2009, while paying out close to the same amount in dividends. \u00a0 Regardless of his family’s banking problems Giannoulias\u00a0remains popular enough with\u00a0democrats. He also happens to be basketball buddies with\u00a0President Barack Obama who he\u00a0friended\u00a0during\u00a0Obama’s earlier days in Illinois politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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