The Democrats are returning to “Sweet Home Chicago” — and giving Gotham the cold shoulder.

The Democratic National Committee announced Tuesday that the Windy City will host next year’s Democratic National Convention — the 12th time party delegates will gather in Chicago to choose their presidential candidate.

“Chicago is a great choice to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention,” President Biden said in a statement released by the DNC. “Democrats will gather to showcase our historic progress including building an economy from the middle out and bottom up, not from the top down. From repairing our roads and bridges, to unleashing a manufacturing boom, and creating over 12.5 million new good-paying jobs, we’ve already delivered so much for hard working Americans — now it’s time to finish the job.”

Chicago beat out New York, Atlanta and Houston for the right to host the convention, where Biden is expected to be renominated for a second four-year term. The last time Chicago hosted the Democrats was in 1996, when then-President Bill Clinton was renominated unanimously en route to a smashing re-election victory.

New York political leaders from both parties were stung by the DNC’s choice of a city that has struggled to combat rising crime and other public safety issues.

“The DNC missed out on a great opportunity,” Manhattan Democratic Party leader Keith Wright told The Post. “There’s no place like New York.”

New York Republican State Committee Chairman Ed Cox called the Chicago choice “crazy” and “terrible” before predicting: “This is going to be as bad as Chicago was in 1968.”

The last time Chicago hosted a contested Democratic convention, 55 years ago, the gathering was marred by street battles between anti-Vietnam War protesters and police, whose “Gestapo tactics” were famously condemned from the stage by then-Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.).

“Chicago will be the poster child for crime and companies leaving,” Cox said. “The [corporate] headquarters are leaving. It’s not a happy place to do business.”

Frank Carone, Mayor Eric Adams’ former chief of staff who led NYC’s convention bid, took a more gracious tone, saying: “It was a great privilege to work alongside my colleagues who together with our private sector partners offered what I believed [was] an incredible bid and story as this would have celebrated NYC’s 100-year anniversary from the first Democratic convention [the city hosted] in 1924. Then rebounding from the 1918 pandemic and now rebounding under Democratic leadership from the 2020 pandemic.

“All I can do is quote what a member of the DNC bid team said: ‘Your team left it all on the field,'” Carone added. “That is certainly true.”

New York has hosted the Democratic National Convention five times — in 1868, 1924, 1976, 1980 and 1992. It also hosted the Republican National Convention in 2004.

The Democrats’ choice of Chicago means the 2024 conventions will be an all-Midwestern affair.

The Republicans announced in August of last year that they would hold their nominating convention in Milwaukee.

“We look forward to the DNC’s convention where their radical agenda will be on full display for the world to see,” Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said. “Voters will soundly reject whichever out-of-touch liberal the Democrats nominate in Chicago and instead elect our Republican nominee as the next President of the United States.”

As with most big cities, Chicago is deeply Democratic.

Biden received 74.4% of the Cook County vote in the 2020 presidential election while his rival, Republican President Donald Trump, received 24.1%.

Chicago’s leftward tilt has carried Democrats to victory in Illinois in each of the last eight presidential elections.

George H.W. Bush was the last Republican to win the Land of Lincoln, in 1988.

With Carl Campanile