If the Chicago Bears won the Super Bowl last year, would you still be proud?

A 3-3 record aside, likely not, said Antonio Coye, who cuts hair at President Barack Obama’s old South-Side barber shop, Hyde Park Hair Salon.

“People get excited off of challenges,” said Coye, before comparing the situation to Obama’s Grant Park victory party last November. “Once the sport is done, they go home and talk.”

Members Team Obama will descend on Chicago for the next two days, as Executive-Branch employees, former campaign staffers and thousands of supporters attend the Chicago premiere of a documentary on the political unlikely’s rise to power. White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod will also speak at a $300-a-plate fundraiser Thursday.

The movie’s filmmaker, recent Oak Park transplant Alicia Sams, spent some two years filming By The People: The Election of Barack Obama, which airs Tuesday on HBO. The motive was to chronicle a historic campaign, not engage in a remember-when fest, she said.

“I'm sure it will be nostalgic for some people, but there are more angles than that” Sams said. “I actually think it’s going to be really interesting to see it in five years, to see it in 10 years."

Nearly a year after Illinois’ junior senator captured the White House, Chicago’s mood is a far cry from the Christmas-meets-Armistice Day euphoria it experience the week after Nov. 4. But for some, throwing a party with a guest list of 2,000 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre might be a bit premature, said Jim Nowlan, a moderate downstate Republican who said he voted for Obama last year.

The former state representative said he didn’t disagree with the get-together, so long as it wasn’t used as a diversion from current political problems.

“It does seem premature in a sense,” Nowlan said. “You tend to think of reunions happening on longer milestones than just a year – many people in the administration have not been there a full year.”

The idea to debut on the one-year anniversary was HBO's idea, Sams said. In an int

Friday night’s festivities include appearances from Axelrod and two former campaign field staffers, Ronnie Cho and Mike Blake, both of whom are “characters” in the movie, Sams said. Cho now works for the Department of Homeland Security and Blake is Deputy Associate Director of Intergovernmental Affairs at the Office of Public Liaison.

A White House spokesman requested questions be sent by e-mail regarding the last time Axelrod visited Chicago or if any other administration members planned to attend. Repeated e-mails were not returned as of late Thursday afternoon.

Molly Bartlett, the organizer for Thursday’s Shiver Center Awards Dinner, said Axelrod’s speaking date is pure coincidence

“He’s a fabulous speaker,” said Bartlett whose group focuses on social and economic justice. “So we thought, ‘why not have him?’”

Also attending Friday: most of the staff at Hyde Park Hair Salon.

“I see tomorrow as kind of a celebration,” said Coye, who still deals with about one journalist a week asking what it was like to watch the president get his hair cut. “It’s also just to review what happened in the past two years: the process that he went through, what it took. People have a tendency to forget, and they go back to the old routine. We need to more of (this).”