While Democrats heaped praised on each other, they offered little in terms of details on how the convention would be paid for.
The event is projected to cost between $80 million and $100 million. While Atlanta had secured commitments of $20 million from major donors and corporations, Pritzker and city business and labor leaders in March pledged they could underwrite the estimated $100 million in convention costs to avoid passing expenses along to the DNC or local taxpayers.
“It was great to get some certainty about who the leadership was going to be here but at the end of the day, we based our decision on what we thought was the best city to put that story out there,” Harrison said. “For us, it was the X’s and O’s, looking logistically at what was necessary, what was needed, looking at resources and budgets, how much money we needed to raise, how we could raise those funds, the plans that each city had to do that. Those were the most important things to us.
“What I guaranteed is that I and the committee that we put together will work extraordinarily hard to raise all the dollars necessary,” Pritzker said, noting when Chicago hosted the Democratic convention in 1996 it “broke even,” which is “a difficult thing.” The 2012 DNC convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, for instance,“We’re going to bring it in on time and on budget,” Lightfoot promised, though her successor will be the one to see it through.
Duckworth, who was credited alongside Pritzker and Lightfoot with helping successfully lobby for the event, said she called Johnson to congratulate him on his mayoral win last week. “I said, when the president calls you, tell him to choose Chicago. He was the final push!” As for security concerns, Lightfoot said “we’re going to be working hand in glove,” with DNC partners, the FBI and the Secret Service to make sure the convention sites themselves are “incredibly secure” and “they have safe passage wherever they go in our city. That is something I’m not concerned about.”
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