[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/11/06/art.axelrod.plane.jpg caption="A source tells Candy Crowley that David Axelrod will be named Senior Adviser to the President-elect."]
CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) - A source with the Obama Transition team tells CNN Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley that a plan to name David Axelrod a Senior Adviser to the incoming President is "in the works."
Axelrod was the Obama presidential campaign's chief strategist, and a top adviser to Obama during his run for the Senate in 2004.