Daley Says Rahm's Longer School Day Plan No Good
While former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has thrown some veiled criticism at successor Rahm Emanuel in the past, the man who led the city for 22 ye...
While former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has thrown some veiled criticism at successor Rahm Emanuel in the past, the man who led the city for 22 ye...
Joe Moreno | Posted 04.23.2012
Today, I'll vote yes for the Infrastructure Trust Ordinance because I'm confident that it will prove to be an essential positive for our city. Putting my head in the sand, while our great city crumbles around us is not something I'm willing to do.
Ed Shurna | Posted 04.17.2012
There are too many unanswered questions. Let's make sure this is not another parking meter scandal. Let's take the time to put in the necessary safeguards.
Posted 02.28.2012
Hundreds of workers from Chicago's Midway and O'Hare airports will descend on City Hall Wednesday morning to attend a City Council meeting on the turn...
Posted 11.24.2011
Updated story Mayor Rahm Emanuel continued a Chicago tradition by flipping the switch to light the 55-foot Colorado spruce in Daley Plaza Wednesday...
Chicago Reader | Posted 12.27.2011
The third week of July was a busy time for Mayor Rahm Emanuel--he was working with police brass to reassign cops, announcing a competition between cit...
Posted 12.07.2011
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Thursday offered a glimpse into Mayor Rahm Emanuel's upcoming city budget, which will be introduced ne...
Chicago News Cooperative | Posted 12.05.2011
Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a plan Wednesday to phase-out the city’s employer head tax, which has long been opposed by local businesses and one ald...
Posted 12.03.2011
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Sunday announced that the city has put together a payment plan aimed at recovering $15 million in overdue water bills fr...
Henry Henderson | Posted 11.29.2011
The mayor's announcement was a strong, public down payment on the vision of transforming the Chicago River into a clean, safe, and usable "backyard" for Chicago.
Posted 11.27.2011
Charging a $5 toll for using Lake Shore Drive and introducing a separate city income tax are just two of several ideas City Hall's watchdog has for cl...
Posted 11.16.2011
As part of his ongoing effort to contend with the city's massive budget shortfall, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is going after the Chicago's annual $500 million...
Posted 11.15.2011
Standing alongside his Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Wednesday that, effective on Thursday, 114 of the ci...
Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 11.07.2011
The real Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the fake Rahm Emanuel met Tuesday night -- but this time there was no vortex. The mayor showed up at the Hideout fo...
Posted 11.03.2011
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Public Schools Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard received an early Labor Day present when teachers at three sm...
AP | By DON BABWIN | Posted 11.03.2011
CHICAGO -- Rahm Emanuel campaigned for Chicago mayor on a promise of putting 1,000 more police officers on the city's streets. Now, the man Emanuel pi...
Posted 11.01.2011
While Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's second town hall meeting this week was reportedly less heated than a Monday meeting where Emanuel was briefly booed...
Posted 10.30.2011
The first of two planned "town hall" meetings on the city's expected $635 million-plus budget shortfall became heated when Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel ...
Posted 10.29.2011
A task force formed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel during his first week in office to evaluate Tax Increment Financing (TIF) submitted a 100-page report to the...
Posted 10.24.2011
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has moved back into his family’s Ravenswood home--once the site of a battle that almost cost him the race--and took the Brown Lin...
Posted 10.24.2011
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel exchanged some feisty words in dueling press conferences Tuesday, suggesting that a bit of ...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 10.22.2011
CHICAGO — When the White House announced Chicago would be the first American city outside Washington to host the NATO and G-8 summits, word got ...
Posted 10.17.2011
A new recovery program will rely on community groups to identify viable foreclosed properties in nine Chicago neighborhoods hard-hit by the foreclosur...
Posted 10.05.2011
Though the two-year-long battle over the lucrative O'Hare International Airport terminal concessions contract appeared to come to an end last week whe...
Posted 09.14.2011
The fears of many city workers were realized Friday as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced 625 layoffs after the Chicago Federation of Labor reported...
Posted 05.01.2012