Article updated: 11/7/2012 12:30 AM

Obama barely misses repeating 2008 suburban sweep

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A line of voters wait inside the Gail Borden Public Library Tuesday morning on election day.

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President Barack Obama, winning his home state of Illinois on his way to a national victory, got help from all but one of the suburban counties that backed him four years ago. Suburban Cook County delivered strong for Obama, giving him more than 64 percent of the vote with most precincts reporting, and he took Lake County with about 54 percent of the vote. Obama also narrowly carried Will, DuPage and Kane counties, but McHenry County turned out for Romney.

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