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With just a few days until his historic inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama will travel by train from the birthplace of the nation's democracy to the city where political power brokers run it.

Obama will begin Saturday at an event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, around 10 a.m. The Presidential Inauguration Committee says tickets are required for the event and will be distributed to the public.

He will later stop in Wilmington, Delaware, the home of Vice President-elect Joe Biden. The event will be held in the back of the Wilmington train station. Doors open at 9:30 a.m. Read full article »

CNN producer Rachel Streitfeld contributed to this report.

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