Former President Joe Biden in Chicago Tuesday to speak at disability advocates conference

Former President Joe Biden will return to Chicago Tuesday to speak before a national gathering of disability advocates focused on protecting and strengthening Social Security.

Although organizers have called the event Biden’s first post-presidency public appearance, a Biden spokeswoman told the Sun-Times the former president “has been public for some time,” including remarks at an IBEW event last week. Biden also spoke at a National High School Model United Nations conference last month in New York.

Biden will headline the 2025 national conference of Advocates, Counselors, and Representatives for the Disabled (ACRD) on Tuesday. The group says it is made up of national leaders, experts and practitioners who are committed to strengthening Social Security for future generations.

U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, R-MO, former U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and former Maryland governor and Social Security Administrator Martin O’Mallley are also scheduled to speak before the group at their two-day conference at the Sofitel Chicago Magnificent Mile.

NBC last month reported that Biden had met with Democratic National Committee chairman Ken Martin and offered to help Democrats fundraise and help rebuild a fractured party. Biden is also planning to write another memoir, as he carves out what his post-presidency will look like.

Former President Barack Obama also kept a relatively low-profile in the months after his presidency, but he delivered a farewell address to the nation at McCormick Place in January 2017, then re-emerged for a public appearance at the University of Chicago in April 2017.

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