West Siders want a seat at the table when Democratic National Convention comes to Chicago: ‘It’s important that they invest in our people’
Morning sunlight hits the United Center and the Chicago skyline on April 26, 2023. The city will host the 2024 Democratic National Convention at the United Center.
U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, who has represented the West Side since 1997, is pledging he and other members of Illinois’ Washington delegation will press the Democratic National Committee to secure Black businesses don’t get left behind when contracts and jobs are awarded ahead of the event.
. In addition to a tree-planting spree in the West Loop and downtown, artisanal street lamps cost more than $1 million in public funds, while spending on bridge makeovers and renovations to Daley Plaza and State Street downtown climbed into the tens of millions. In some neighborhoods, scars of past decades are still fresh in vacant city lots, some empty for decades or since widespread unrest broke out following Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination.“West of the United Center, there’s evidence there of 1968, what happened over there,” said Bradly Johnson, chief community officer at the youth development organization BUILD and a board member at Westside Rising. “And the West Side hasn’t really been invested in since that time, since the late ’60s.
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