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Crowd in Chicago Celebrates Mubarak's Fall
CHICAGO (AP) --The celebration of the departure of Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak stretched to Chicago in an impromptu rally organized on Facebook.

About 50 people gathered Friday evening in front of Egyptian consulate in an office building on Michigan Ave., many of them waving Egyptian flags.

Two men held up a banner declaring ``Long live a free Egypt,'' while another man played a drum and others danced. The crowd sang the Egyptian national anthem and folk songs.

One demonstrator was Amira Shaker, a Northwestern University law student from Cairo. She said she is 28 and has never known any Egyptian leader but Mubarak. Shaker says that when her father called her with the news, he held up his cell phone to let her hear the noise of the jubilant crowd. In Cairo.

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