Biden hits Chicago next Wednesday for IBEW event
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden visits Chicago next Wednesday, the White House announced Thursday, the first time he has been in the area since October.
Biden is traveling to the city to speak to the 40th International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers International Convention.
The convention was originally scheduled for last August and delayed because of the pandemic. Chicago was selected as the convention site in 2017, and a release from that year noted that Locals 134, 9, 214, 794 and 1220 will be convention hosts.
According to the IBEW release, the convention is to be held at the Lakeside Center, part of the McCormick Place convention complex.
Biden landed Air Force One at O’Hare last October for an event in Elk Grove Village promoting his orders for larger businesses to mandate COVID vaccines or weekly tests.
In July 2021, Biden headed to McHenry County College in Crystal Lake in northwest Illinois to tout his infrastructure bill and the “Build Back Better” domestic agenda. Biden ventured into political turf where ex-President Donald Trump remains popular to push for the “human infrastructure” agenda that so far has not passed.
Biden toured the McHenry County College Children’s Learning Center and in his speech said, “It’s an amazing resource. Students and faculty can have their children cared for. Students can earn their associate degrees in early childhood education as well.”
Vice President Kamala Harris was in Chicago in April 2021 to tour a COVID-19 vaccination center at 2260 S. Grove St., organized by the Chicago Federation of Labor.