Watch the Powerful 2012 Speech Obama Gave at the Same Spot He'll Deliver His Farewell Address

It's the end of an era, as President Obama will deliver the final speech of his administration on Jan. 10. Where? McCormick Place in Chicago. The location is significant not just because it's in his home city where his political career began, but because McCormick Place is also the site of his 2012 victory speech. In the early hours of Nov. 7, Obama delivered one of the most powerful monologues of his career after defeating Mitt Romney.

As his administration comes to a close, watching that victory speech once more is certainly bittersweet.

Obama began by thanking his campaign team and volunteers, VP Joe Biden, daughters Sasha and Malia, and, of course, wife Michelle Obama. "Let me say this publicly. Michelle, I have never loved you more," he said. "I have never been prouder to watch the rest of America fall in love with you, too, as our nation's first lady."

Of course, hope for America's future was the theme of his words. "Tonight, in this election, you, the American people, reminded us that while our road has been hard, while our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back, and we know in our hearts that for the United States of America, the best is yet to come," he said.

Obama also delivered a line that many might find poignant after Hillary Clinton's loss: "I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting."

And he ended with one of his most famous quotes to date: "I believe we can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. We're not as cynical as the pundits believe. We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions, and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are, and forever will be, the United States of America."

As for his final speech, Obama said that he'll use it as "a chance to say thank you for this amazing journey, to celebrate the ways you've changed this country for the better these past eight years, and to offer some thoughts on where we all go from here."