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Over the holiday weekend, starting on Thursday, 82 people were shot and 14 were murdered.

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Cuts approved by the City Council have led to protests from city workers, including police and fire staff, who say they cannot afford the changes and feel betrayed by a city they have served and protected.

A former Chicago Park District official who was romantically involved with one of the investors in the Park Grill in Millennium Park has taken the witness stand this afternoon as the city tries to void the restaurant's contract.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday he is backing a plan to boost the city's minimum wage to $13 an hour.

A Cook County judge wants lawyers for Richard M. Daley to explain the medical reason the former Chicago mayor shouldn't testify at the trial of the city's lawsuit seeking to break the agreement for a Millennium Park restaurant.

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," President Barack Obama's former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, once infamously stated.

THE FOURTH of July, that most American of holidays, is typically celebrated with parades, fireworks and backyard cookouts.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and some aldermen are pushing to raise Chicago's minimum wage to $13 per hour by 2018.

The violence in Chicago under Mayor Rahm Emanuel is rapidly spiraling out of control.

At least nine people were murdered in Chicago over the Independence Day weekend in an explosion of gun violence branded "simply unacceptable" by its mayor.

Jimmy Fallon has done it again. The Tonight Show host delighted the Internet with a rendition of Iggy Azalea's hit jam 'Fancy' as Neil Young with Crosby, Stills, Nash.

A task force appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel has recommended the city's minimum wage gradually be increased to $13 an hour by 2018.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel visited with students at the Summer Engineering Experience for Kids program as it got underway Monday at Miles Davis Magnet Academy.

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy speaks at a news conference Monday, July 7, 2014, in Chicago.

Over the course of 84 hours during the Independence Day holiday in Chicago, 82 people were shot and 14 were killed, prompting calls from Mayor Rahm Emanuel to put a stop to gun violence in the city.

After a deadly Fourth of July weekend, let's reflect on crime in Chicago using some public information that apparently the Attorney General missed Mayor Rahm Emanuel and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder found much to be delighted about in a roundtable discussion on CPS safety issues.

Chicago's holiday weekend ended with a crescendo of violence, with 21 shootings on Sunday alone, police said Monday.

The July Fourth holiday weekend brought an explosion of gunfire to Chicago, where about 60 people were shot and nearly a dozen killed, authorities said on Monday.

More than 60 people were shot in Chicago over the holiday weekend, at least nine of them killed, according to ABC News , including a host of drivebys that struck intended targets in addition to bystanders and those in the wrong place at the wrong time.