A man sweeps dry leaves in an alley in the Hyde Park district

A black man sweeps the dry leaves from the side of a road just next to a car, a metallic gray Honda Odissey, which has two sticker touting the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama stuck on the rear bumper; one of them states the slogan "Hope, not fear" and the other recalls the name of the Senator from Illinois associated with that of his Vice President candidate Joe Biden; the first african american to be elected President of the United States got a lot of votes here in Chicago and especially from the black community. Chicago, Illinois, November 2008. (Photo by Pigi Cipelli/Archivio Pigi Cipelli/Mondadori via Getty Images)