It turns out the 2020 Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee is going to be very good for the Illinois hotel industry.

Twenty-six of the delegations attending the convention will be housed in hotels in northern Illinois, while 31 delegations will be staying in the Milwaukee area, according to a list obtained Thursday by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

The breakdown reveals the regional nature of the convention, which will be centered at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee.

Delegates will be housed in seven clusters of hotels.

In all, 2,926 hotel rooms will be used for delegates in Wisconsin while 2,841 hotel rooms will be used in Illinois, according to the list.

Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez said local organizers secured 17,000 hotel rooms for the convention. The delegations account for about a third of that total.

The placing of delegates is the first move on a complicated chessboard to house up to 50,000 people — including media, donors, activists and volunteers — who are expected to attend the convention.

Downtown Milwaukee will be host to Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin.

Illinois and Michigan are at hotels in Waukesha, while Wauwatosa will host delegations from Indiana, Maine, Montana, Oregon and West Virginia.

Those housed at Milwaukee airport hotels include Arizona, Democrats Abroad, Washington, D.C., Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina and South Dakota.

Ohio, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are headed to Brookfield.

The convention headquarters will be at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center hotel.

With its concentration of large hotels, Rosemont will be home to big-state delegations, including California, Florida and Texas.

Others staying in Rosemont include Alabama, American Samoa, Georgia, Guam, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Tennessee, Washington and Wyoming.

Lake County, Illinois, will host delegations from Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, New Mexico, North Carolina, Northern Marianas, Pennsylvania and Utah.

Timothy Sheehy, president of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, said the city highlighted its proximity to hotels in northern Illinois when it put together its pitch to host the convention.

"You also have to recognize, in part, that's how the bid was won," Sheehy said.

Sheehy said he remains confident that Wisconsin businesses will benefit from the event, stressing that delegates and others staying in Illinois will be spending money in the Milwaukee area throughout the day at lunches, meetings and other events.

"The economic tune is still going to be very high for Metropolitan Milwaukee," he said. "All that spending gets captured in the region."

In March, Gov. Tony Evers said the convention was a chance to put Milwaukee and Wisconsin "on the world stage."

Evers and Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who is from Milwaukee, did not answer whether they believed the convention would produce the economic impact initially expected given the number of Illinois hotel assignments.

A spokesperson for Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, said: "Illinois will proudly welcome guests to the 2020 Democratic convention as we play a major role in showcasing the vitality and importance of the Midwest to the nation."

Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chairman Ben Wikler agreed that Milwaukee and the state will get an economic boost.

"People eat, drink, celebrate and build the economy not when they’re asleep, but when they’re awake — and DNC delegates will spend every possible waking moment in Wisconsin," he said.

While 26 of the 57 delegations will be near Chicago, none will be in the cities of Madison, Racine, Kenosha or Sheboygan.

Wikler said those cities and others "will be blessed with DNC-related visitors” including thousands of journalists, Democratic activists and donors. He said the state delegations represent a small fraction of the people who descend on national conventions.

Kristin Settle of Visit Milwaukee said the organization was "aware early on that delegates would be assigned to hotels throughout the region, including the Chicago area."

"This is due in part to the desire for delegations to be housed together; that is, all the delegates from one state or territory be in the same hotel. This helps with costs, logistics, meetings and transportation," she said.

"This was always part of the DNC’s overall housing platform. It does not reflect on Milwaukee’s size as a city or its inventory of hotels, which will still be full during the run of the convention," she added.

Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway said she expected plenty of convention-goers to stay in Madison hotels even if the delegates won't be.

"Though we’re not on the list to host any state delegations, we’ve actually got a lot of interest in room blocks for other folks," Rhodes-Conway said. "You know, we’re just looking forward to helping Milwaukee make this convention as much of a success as possible."

Racine County Executive Jonathan Delagrave said he wants DNC officials to reconsider the hotel assignments given none are in the Racine area.

"Part of the reason that they wanted the (convention) was to highlight not only Milwaukee but southeast Wisconsin," Delagrave said. "It’s unfortunate it’s the case and we hope they correct it."

Delagrave said no one from the DNC contacted him or his staff about hotel capacity in the Racine County area, which borders Milwaukee County.

Republicans, who are eager for President Donald Trump to win again in Wisconsin, chided the Democrats on the hotel assignments.

Pat Garrett, former Republican Party of Wisconsin spokesman and communications director for Iowa's Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds, tweeted: "Dems can't even go all in on Wisconsin!"

Charles Nichols, a spokesman for the RPW, said: "Democrats continue to look at states like Wisconsin and say 'it’s a nice place to visit, I just don’t want to stay there.' ”

The convention will be held July 13-16.

Journal Sentinel reporter Patrick Marley contributed to this report.