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On a night focused on President Joe Biden passing the torch to Harris, some of Illinois’ top political stars also took center stage on Monday to kick off the four-day convention.
Thomas Nides, former U.S. ambassador to Israel, said the vice president has worked in lockstep with President Joe Biden since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks in southern Israel.
"As a Black man raising a Black girl on the West Side of Chicago, I know that my daughter will see not only a reflection of herself in the White House but our deepest American values," Johnson told a world audience.
The massive barrier looks formidable enough to keep its previous residents from ever pitching tents again on the blocks-long patch of shady land just north of Roosevelt between Desplaines Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway.