Inside the United Center
Noon
Restoration inside the United Center begins, including demolition of the expensive podium and network skyboxes. It must be completed in nine days to set up for a Sept. 14 Neil Diamond concert.
And outside the United Center
8 a.m.
Power and air conditioning are shut off to the five temporary media pavilions on the United Center grounds. News organizations begin packing.
9:50 a.m.
President Clinton addresses the Democratic National Committee in the Sheraton Chicago ballroom.
11 a.m.
Chicago ’96 thanks 8,000 convention volunteers at a Navy Pier party.
11:25 a.m.
A rally sends off President and Mrs. Clinton from Midway Airport.
Noon
The Chicago Jazz Festival opens a three-day run in Grant Park, just one attraction that civic leaders hope will keep conventioneers in Chicago and spending money.
1:35 p.m.
The Clintons and Gores launch a two-day bus trip with stops in Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee.
10 p.m.
Fireworks sponsored by WXRT radio explode over the Monroe Street Harbor.
THE SHOW
Television coverage of the events
Shows to watch
“CNN & Co.”
When the party’s over
Time magazine’s Peggy Noonan, Democratic Senate aide Karen Gravois and the Tribune’s Ellen Warren offer their takes on the just-concluded doings in the United Center. 10:30-11:30 a.m., CNN
“Democratic National Committee Meeting”
Mopping up
The Clintons and Gores are expected at the DNC’s Executive committee session. 9-11 a.m., C-SPAN
“Today”
A cool change
In addition to the expected political post-mortems, native Chicagoan Bryant Gumbel (at left) tours his favorite places in the city, and the Little River Band plays three songs live, including “Cool Change,” to mellow the mood. 7-9 a.m., NBC (WMAQ-Ch.5)
The joke
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” Wednesday
“You know who I feel really sorry for in this whole campaign? The Secret services agents who are guarding Ross Perot. I mean, you train all your life to be on the lookout for that one lone nut, and then you realize: He’s the candidate.”
THE COMPUTER CONNECTION
World Wide Web
With the conventions over, political sites shift to the campaign.
The Internet Chicago Tribune augments the newspaper’s coverage with multimedia files and stories by the site’s reports.
http://www.chicago.tribune.com
Each campaign has an official site.
Dole-Kemp: http://www.dole96.com
Clinton-Gore: http://www.cg96.org
Perot: http://www.reformparty.org
Convention sites maintain archives of video, audio, text and picture files of the nominating process.
Democrats: http://www.dncc.96.org
Republicans: http://www.rnc.org
Time-Warner/CNN’s All Politics campaign coverage includes RealAudio speeches.
http://www.allpolitics.com
The PoliticsNow site of ABC, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and Newsweek offers continual poll coverage.
http://www.politicsnow.com
White House 96 is a master list of political sites by professor Avi Bass at Northern Illinois University.
http://www.niu.edu/newsplace/whitehouse.html
On-line
America Online’s Chicago Tribune area continues coverage of local and national races. Keyword TRIBUNE. AOL’s political areas add video and audio clips and files produced by the campaigns. Keyword POLITICS.
CompuServe offers both a dedicated Election 1996 site managed by Time magazine and a list of Web sites that subscribers can call up from the browser built in Compuserve’s latest software. Go POLITICS.
THE NUMBERS: THE FINAL TOLL
– Protesters arrested, Saturday through Thursday afternoon: 48
– People protesting the arrest of fellow protesters: 30
– Publicly announced convention-related parties: 240
– Delegates knocked out by TV cameras: 1 (Sen. John Glenn’s wife, Annie, is OK.)
– Round trips to United Center on CTA delegate/media shuttles: 52,000
– Number of nights convention finished on schedule: 0
– Last time Bill Clinton fired Dick Morris: 1979
– Days until election: 68
