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Chicago’s drive for 2024 Democratic convention jumps into high gear

A Chicago 2024 Host Committee, tasked with raising millions of dollars for the bid, is expected to be named soon.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 21, 2022

Fact-check: Sen. Tammy Duckworth over-hypes specifics of gender pay gap study

The annual Equal Pay Day Coalition study does not separate out white women, and does not examine the same professions nor the qualifications of either gender. The U.S. senator joins a growing number of Democratic politicians who have incorrectly cited the national study of the gender pay gap to…

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 1, 2022

Pritzker, Lightfoot, Duckworth working on pitch for 2024 Democratic National Convention to be held in Chicago

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is working with Sen. Tammy Duckworth, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s team and a litany of other top Democrats in the state to start laying the extensive groundwork needed to put together a bid for what would the city’s first major political convention since 1996.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 30, 2022