Julie Jargon reports on the inauguration. Eli’s Cheesecake Co., of President-elect Barack Obama ’s home base, will be the big cheese at the Commander-in-Chief Ball on Jan. 20. In keeping with the Abraham Lincoln inaugural theme, Chicago-based Eli’s will make a 500-pound cheesecake with an apple-flavored middle layer, in homage to Lincoln’s love of apples. To make the behemoth cake, which is being baked today and tomorrow, Eli’s is using 100 pounds of cream cheese, 30 pounds of ...