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Next summer’s 2024 Democratic National Convention will be held in Chicago.
The Democratic National Committee announced Tuesday it had chosen the Windy City over other cities in contention, including New York, Atlanta and Houston, as the site where delegates will select a final presidential nominee.
« Chicago is a great choice to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention, » President Biden said in a statement. « Democrats will gather to showcase our historic progress including building an economy from the middle out and bottom up, not from the top down. »
Biden has said he plans to seek reelection but has not yet made an official announcement.
In 2020, the Democratic convention had been planned for Milwaukee, but the pandemic forced a switch to a mostly virtual event. In naming Chicago for 2024, the DNC cited the city’s location in the so-called « Blue Wall » of must-win Midwestern states for Democrats — Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota. Biden won all four in 2020.
The selection comes a week after Chicago elected a new Democratic mayor, and in neighboring Wisconsin, the state supreme court flipped in favor of liberals for the first time in 15 years.
