Chicago Selected To Host 2024 Democratic Convention

The New York Times reports:

President Biden and his party have selected Chicago to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention, according to people briefed on the site selection process, elevating a large liberal city in the heart of the Midwest, a critical battleground region.

In the final deliberations, Chicago beat out New York — another progressive city whose advocates had boasted of its infrastructure and fund-raising resources — as well as Atlanta, in a presidential battleground state. Houston was eliminated earlier in the process.

Chicago’s boosters argued that it was a bastion of Democratic Party values — a liberal place that embraces abortion rights, L.G.B.T.Q. rights, and labor and civil rights — and that Illinois reflected the diversity of the nation.

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1 reason why Chicago beat Atlanta for DNC: “Given the importance of labor to the Democratic Party, [labor argued] convention should not be held in a state that has often been hostile to labor, in a city with very few unionized hotels”https://t.co/NRdMEARB63

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