Chicago DNC organizers hold pep rally with 10 days left
CHICAGO â The Democratic National Convention is just 10 days away from kicking off in Chicago .Organizers and public officials held a pep rally on Friday at the John Hancock building amid the final push of excitement ahead of the convention. Gov. JB Pritzker said he was looking forward to pulling off a historic convention.The organizers said the pep rally was a way to kick things off as a toast to the collective effort that brought them to this point.
Many speakers, including Pritzker, said Chicago's landscape of diversity and hospitality are some of the reasons it was chosen as the city to host the convention.'We're just 10 days away and honestly, this is going to be a truly historic adventure,' Pritzker said. 'And it's for a lot of reasons that have already been mentioned, but you know, we're about to host the most energized convention ever in the history of political conventions.
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