Milwaukee’s Baird Center is seen from the Baird Sky View Terrace before its opening in May 2024. The center received LEED Gold certification, marking it as one of the most sustainable convention ...

Here's what to know about the year's DNC. Preparations for the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center continue on August 18, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.

The Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee brought 50,000 visitors to the city, but a variety of factors led to lower-than-expected business activity in the city’s downtown area. Many local ...

State Sen. Terri Bryant, center, attends Thursday's Republican National Convention session at Fiserv Forum on July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune) ...

Convention Fest, located within the RNC security zone between the Baird Center, Miller High Life Theatre and UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena on West Kilbourn Ave., featured over 75 national and local ...

Milwaukee hosts first RNC 'Convention Fest' Fest is located in hard security zone on Kilbourn Avenue Updated: 6:22 PM CDT Jul 15, 2024 Editorial Standards ⓘ Amy Fleury ...

The Republican National Convention will descend this week on Wisconsin’s largest city — whose colorful history includes an assassination attempt on presidential hopeful Teddy Roosevelt in 1912.

Porter told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, part of the USA TODAY Network. Porter had been staying there since June, near the convention’s outer “vehicle screening” perimeter.

The convention center is more than two decades old — and has been renamed six times. Though its renovation only ended months ago, the Baird Center has a 26-year history in Milwaukee.

The convention center surpassed its diversity, equity and inclusion goals for the expansion. As part of its expansion project, the Baird Center set goals to have at least 25% minority-owned business, ...

A worker vacuums the convention floor as preparations continue inside the Fiserv Forum for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisc., on Saturday, July 13, 2024.

Democrats picked Milwaukee for the party’s last convention, but the 2020 DNC became an online event because of the pandemic. The city’s back-to-back selection by Democrats and Republicans ...