The convention was a battle between the forces of inclusive, expansive democracy and those espousing a narrower, hostile concept of who fully belonged to America.
Republicans have cast Chicago as a metropolis of crime and dysfunction, but with the 2024 Democratic convention, Chicagoans are eager to prove them wrong.
For their flagship gathering, President Biden and Democrats chose a city in the heart of a battleground region, which had argued that it embodied the party’s liberal values.