Chicago was selected Tuesday to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison will join local Democratic leaders – including Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson – for a press conference Wednesday to discuss the selection.
The press conference will be held at the Shedd Aquarium and is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.
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Chicago, which last hosted the convention in 1996, was selected over Atlanta and New York to host the anticipated renomination of President Joe Biden. Though the choice was announced by the Democratic National Committee, the selection rested with Biden.
The president, in a statement, called Chicago “a great choice” for the convention as the DNC cited a Midwestern “blue wall” of states — Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota — as crucial to Biden’s 2020 victory and to Democratic midterm victories last year.
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