Rahm Emanuel News

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Sunday that the city's park district and cultural affairs department are collaborating to make the performances possible.

He helped Mayor Rahm Emanuel get his job, helped former Gov. Rod Blagojevich lose his job and helped Cicero Town President Larry Dominick keep his job.

Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel , a bioethicist and architect of President Obama's health care law, offered a somewhat novel explanation for Mr. Obama's now-debunked promise that if people liked their doctors and health insurance plans, they could keep them under the law.

This should come as no surprise, but it is a glaring example of the problems that cities, counties and states will have if they want, or need, to right their overloaded pension systems.

Juan Rangel stepped down as CEO of the influential United Neighborhood Organization, which administers 16 charter schools in Chicago and is currently under federal investigation.

The new head of Chicago's FBI office said Monday he'll look for ways his agents can do more to help stem homicide rates and other violent crimes in the nation's third-largest city, though he added it's not yet clear what more the FBI can do that it's not already doing.

Thus I guess an even larger indicator of Chicago's "financial rebound" would be Polish or Italian immigrants wheeling around rickety wooden carts selling potatoes on the street..

Bob Mariano gives Mayor Rahm Emanuel a tour of the new Mariano's supermarket in the south Loop at 1615 S. State St. on October 7, 2013.

The facility located at the Chicago O'Hare International Airport includes 53,000 square feet of office space and 423,030 square feet of warehousing to accommodate working space for Global Forwarding's more than 500 employees.

I opened this morning's Tribune and what did I see? An essay , penned by Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, extolling the virtues of our very own Mayor Emanuel! Hey, hey-apparently these fellas have a bipartisan mutual-appreciation society.

After Nelson Mandela died yesterday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel issued a statement : "The world is sadder now because he has died; but we are comforted knowing that the world is better because he lived.

In 18 months, the City, CPS, and the Kitchen Community Achieved its Goal of Installing 100 Learning Gardens Across the City to Provide Students with Hands-On Nutrition and Science Education Opportunities Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Kitchen Community today gathered together with students, teachers, parents, and community volunteers at Peirce ... (more)

"I am pleased to have Dan Widawsky join the City of Chicago's finance team. With more than 20 years' experience as a finance, tax, and legal professional, he brings with him considerable knowledge and expertise from both the private and public sectors to serve Chicago taxpayers," said Mayor Emanuel.

Juan Rangel, longtime leader of the politically powerful United Neighborhood Organization, has stepped aside from his $250,000-a-year post as UNO's chief executive in the wake of a scandal that cost the group millions of dollars in state funding and led to a federal investigation of its bond dealings.

Juan Rangel, longtime leader of the politically powerful United Neighborhood Organization, has stepped aside from his $250,000-a-year post as UNO's chief executive in the wake of a scandal that cost the group millions of dollars in state funding and led to a federal investigation of its bond dealings.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has not yet conducted a sweeping review of Chicago Police Department positions that could be civilianized, even as he uses $93 million in police overtime this year - and $75 million more next year - to mask a manpower shortage, the inspector general has concluded.

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Gov. Pat Quinn few figures of the 20th century changed the world as much as Mandela.

"The thoughts and prayers of the people of Chicago join those of billions of people around the world who mourn the passing of Nelson Mandela and celebrate his life and legacy.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and other officials announced a nearly half-billion dollar, four-year renovation plan for the CTA Blue Line's O'Hare branch on Thursday.