Sen. Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President last night in front of a crowd of over 80,000 at Denver's Invesco Field. Here is his speech in its entity.

The Democratic National Convention closed out on Thursday night with Barack Obama accepting his party's nomination for president. Below you'll find videos of his speech, Sen. Dick Durbin's introduction, Chicago's own Jennifer Hudson performing, and local reaction to the night's events.

One of the few perks of being a political reporter is sometimes getting the text of a speech before it's delivered.

So here's my gift to you. If you promise to read this entire entry, you'll get to see a few excerpts from his upcoming speech before the rest of the world sees it.

Obama (a guy who once had trouble getting reporters to press conferences not in the statehouse press room) is probably giving the most important speech of his life tonight.

He must not only sell himself to his own party to get Sen. Hillary Clinton's sore supporters behind him, he must also convince the American people he can be a strong, patriotic leader who understands and can help their problems as opposed to some Harvard-educated out-of-touch liberal elitist.

Chicago and Illinois again had a major roll in Wednesday Democratic Convention. Below you will find video of Mayor Daley speech as well as speeches from Sen. and Vice Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, Bill Clinton. Also included is CLTV political reporter Carlos Hernandez Gomez's explanation of yesterday's roll call, WGN's Mark Suppelsa's report from Denver and Garrard McClendon's conversation with Jesse Jackson Jr.

It's been forty years since Hizzoner Richard J. Daley presided over the infamous 1968 Chicago convention when Chicago cops mercilessly beat the protestors, reporters and others with impunity.

And his son Mayor Richard II redeemed the city with as he pulled off the successfully pulled off the 1996 Democratic National Convention.

Now Daley the younger is in a unique position, mayor of the adopted hometown of his party's nominee Barack Obama.

Obama's catchword this campaign season is change, and Daley made sure to pepper his pro-Obama speech to the delegates in Denver with that all-important word.

"The American people are looking for change and for leadership," Daley proclaimed. "They know that the same old politics won't work."

The same old politics won't work? Really your honor? They seem to be alive and well in Chicago.

This is video of Sen. Clinton's entire speech from Tuesday night's Democratic National Convention. What did you think? Of her speech? Of her choice of words? Of her outfit? Leave a comment below.

Sen. Hillary Clinton was last night's main event at the Democratic National Convention. Below, you'll find her entire speech as well as local reaction to it. WGN's Mark Suppelsa and Allison Payne reported live from the Pepsi Center with a wrap up of the day's events and CLTV's Garrard McClendon spoke with Roland Burris who was also in Denver.

For continuous coverage of the convention, tune into CLTV and log on to the DNC section of the news blog.

"The time is now to unite as a single party with a single purpose."

Those were the words Senator Hillary Clinton said as she opened her speech at the Democratic National Convention.

If you didn't see it, the 20,000+ delegates were on their feet for a good number of minutes, cheering, holding up "Hillary" signs and chanting rythmically "Hill-a-ry, Hill-a-ry"

The message, as expected, was one of unity. Though it is of note that her speech veered in the direction of her own stump speech... for her own candidacy.

Here is Michelle Obama's entire speech from Monday night's Democratic National Convention. For more on the convention, tune into CLTV all week long and follow along on the blog.

Chicago played a big part in the opening day of the Democratic National Convention. Below are selected video highlights from the first day including CLTV's political reporter Carlos Hernandez Gomez analysis of the convention thus far, Garrard McClendon's interview with Army Maj. Tammy Duckworth who is in Denver this week and highlights from Michelle Obama's prime time address.

Michelle Obama, the woman who could become the nation's first African-American first lady, is tonight's keynote speaker for the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Known as "the rock" in the Obama family, she wrote her own stump speech. It's expected to humanize her other half and to show up her own critics.
It is indeed Michelle's big night to shine.

Michelle Obama kicks off the Democratic National Convention tonight and will speak in prime time to the crowd in Denver. CLTV will be covering the convention all week, both on air and online. Below you'll find WGN's Allison Payne's in depth interview with Michelle that aired last December. She talks about balancing her family life with politics, how race is affecting her approach to campaigning and how her Chicago roots help her every step of the way.