Between 1860 and 1996, Chicago hosted 25 Republican and Democratic conventions. No other city has hosted nearly as many.
, the city hosted 25 Republican and Democratic conventions. No other city has hosted nearly as many, with the runner-up, Baltimore, claiming 10, followed by Philadelphia, with 9.Add to that total the founding of the Prohibition Party at an 1869 convention in Chicago’s Farwell Hall. Plus Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Party, founded in 1912 as a breakaway from the Republican Party that also met in Chicago that same year.Here’s a look back at how the Tribune has covered them.
So he confessed his misgivings to the newspaper’s editor. “See, here, you Tribune boys got me up a peg too high,” he told Joseph Medill, the paper’s editor. “How about the vice presidency? Won’t that do?” “We’re not playing second in this dance to any musician. It’s president or nothing. Else you can count the Tribune out. We’re not fooling away our time and science on the vice presidency.”Democrats met in Chicago for the first time in 1864, when the party nominated Gen. George B. McClellan. Four years later, Republicans returned to nominate Civil War hero Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
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