Here's a look at a few soaring scenes, floor fights, street battles and other memorable convention moments that were uplifting, outlandish or just plain awkward.

When Barack Obama accepted his presidential nomination at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Jennifer Lopez was in town, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner attended the proceedings ...

There is a small monument on the southeast corner of Wacker Drive and Lake Street that marks a momentous event in Chicago’s political history, the birth of the city as the convention capital of ...

After I covered the 2016 conventions for WVXU in Cleveland, where Trump was nominated, and Philadelphia, where Hillary Clinton was the nominee, I said no mas to the conventions; 16 of these ...

Kamala Harris’ nomination was an unprecedented moment. As we head toward the Democratic National Convention, history is in our hands. OPINION: We’re standing on the precipice of something ...

So what’s the point of having primaries AND nominating conventions? When you vote for a candidate in a primary, you're not voting for that person. You weren't voting for Joe Biden.

A Democratic president resigning; a vice president trying to secure the nomination; the possibility of a divisive, contested convention looming in Chicago; the likelihood of further polarization ...

Open nominating conventions used to be the norm in American politics. One reason the major parties moved away from them was to avoid chaos.