Democrats choose Chicago as the site of the 2024 convention
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Source: NBC News
The Democratic Party has chosen Chicago as the site of its 2024 convention. President Joe Biden called Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to tell him about Chicago’s selection Tuesday morning before leaving for Ireland.
"Chicago is a great choice to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention," 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."
The City of Big Shoulders last hosted a convention in 1996, when then-President Bill Clinton ran for re-election and Democrats helped make famous the “Macarena” dance.
“The last Chicago convention was a huge success. It makes sense to put the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 2024. Every facility where it will be located will be a union facility. Every hotel is a union hotel,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth told NBC News Thursday. “We are a state that guaranteed in multiple ways the right of women to have reproductive choice. And in fact, we are a beacon of hope and security for women’s health care from all of the states around us.”
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President Joe Biden called Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to tell him about Chicago’s selection Tuesday morning before leaving for Ireland.
The decision came after deliberations and site visits from Democratic National Committee members. In recent months, the DNC viewed Chicago and Atlanta as the front-runners, with New York City remaining in the mix.
Each city made aggressive pitches to DNC members, with Chicago and Atlanta each leaning on arguments that their regions — the Midwest and the South, respectively — will play pivotal roles in electing the next president. Organized labor had made a forceful argument for New York City.
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and start to bolster a presence in the MW since many there complain about being "the flyover zone" and who subsequently tar and feather Democrats as "the coastal elites".
The clawing back of both nearby IL neighbors WI and MI, from the nightmare of GOP rule, was probably also an impetus to re-establish a foothold there. There is also obviously an acknowledgement of the other neighbors lost since Barack Obama was first elected President in 2008 (i.e., IA, OH, and IN).
there are at least 2 generations of voters who were either young children or not even born when that happened 55 years ago. 
I know here in Philly, it was 68 years between the 1948 Convention and the 2016 one (my mother remembered that 1948 one with Truman's fiery speech). That was the first "televised" Convention.
(no "1968" redux in 1996 that I recall...
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Had this on my windoze back then...
I am honestly amazed that some seem to be so haunted by the spectre of 1968, and I think some major chilling is on order on that score. 
Brandon Johnson
the first time right before Nelson Mandela was to make a stop there in 1990 (I eventually saw Mandela here in Philly when he and de Klerk were awarded the Liberty Medal in 1993 and he appeared at an event held after the awards ceremony in our old Civic Center, since replaced by the PA Convention Center). The 2nd time was about a decade later when I attended a cousin's wedding and saw all the construction that had happened when they hosted the 1996 Summer Olympics.
I think the kicker is (that I forgot about given all that was going on in 1996), Chicago actually hosted the 1996 DNC Convention for Bill Clinton's re-election bid.
So I think the references back to 1968 when 1996 resulted in nothing of the sort like 1968, is sortof "telling one's age".
They chose Chicago for other reasons.
Besides, the 2020 Dem convention was in a swing state. No need to do that 2x in a row!
