Rahm Emanuel News

The Emanuel administration is willing to meet at least one demand of sleepless residents affected by changes in jet noise patterns at O'Hare International Airport by installing more noise monitors in Chicago and several suburbs, officials are expected to announce Tuesday.

When Rahm Emanuel held a press conference to herald the ground-breaking of Wolf Point West Tower -- a 48-story, $160 million development on the Chicago River -- Tom Villanova, president of the Chicago and Cook County Building and Construction Trades Council, and Jorge Ramirez, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, took the stage to sing the ... (more)

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will soon feel the political heat generated by the ongoing web of gun violence plaguing the Windy City, Newsmax's chief political columnist John Gizzi says.

After an 11-year-old girl was shot and killed by a stray bullet while sitting on a friend's bedroom floor, Chicago officials met Monday to discuss the city's recent surge in gun violence.

On November 20th, 1996, Rahm Emanuel had an idea. Amidst the joy of the re-election of his friend and mentor, President Bill Clinton, Emanuel saw an opportunity for the president to help the Democratic Party maintain a perceived "parity" with the GOP on crime - record deportations .

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More than 3,100 students will be reached during the 2014-15 school year for Becoming a Man and Match programs CHICAGO Mayor Rahm Emanuel issued the below statement following President Barack Obama's announcement on Monday that the City of Chicago, Chicago Public Schools , and the University of Chicago Crime Lab and Urban Education Lab will receive ... (more)

Associated Press Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office says a task force has been created in an effort to increase the number of affordable housing units in the city.

A group of Chicago aldermen is planning to call on City Hall's top watchdog to launch an audit of the city's red light camera system with an eye toward issuing refunds to anyone who has been wrongly ticketed.

When president Obama was lifted to the presidency promising hope and change, no community was more hopeful than the black community.

More than three years after President Barack Obama's former chief of staff cruised into City Hall, they're instead asking if the middle finger-flipping mayor and legendary political tactician just might fail to win re-election in the nation's third-most populous city.

After last year's experience, Mayor Rahm Emanuel must have lobbied Tom Skilling.

So how's that whole gun free zone thing in Chicago working out? Even though they came close to setting a new record over the 4th of July, things in the Windy City aren't slowing down much.

From Wonkblog , another interesting look at how the fight over the so-called "sharing economy", in particular transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft, is playing out nationally.

SAN DIEGO – Just when you think the Obama administration can't sink any lower, someone puts in a basement.

CHICAGO a?? Even with overall crime rates in decline, a wave of gun violence here is ramping up the political pressure on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel as he prepares for a reelection campaign.

In the wake of Cook County Board Chairman Toni Preckwinkle's hasty exit as a possible mayoral contender, Sneed is told there is a move to fill the void with two male contenders in the black community: State Sen. Kwame Raoul and former Illinois Senate President Emil Jones Jr. I called Kwame today and he said he'd been asked by a Sun-Times reporter ... (more)

That unhappy distinction - based on the murder rate per 100,000 people, not on the number of actual dead people on the streets - belongs to poor, underpopulated Flint, Mich.

In order to win the working-class vote and the labor vote and the all-important Marxists-in-Ravenswood vote, Mayor Emanuel has moved to the left on the issue of raising the minimum wage.

Former President Bill Clinton listens as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks to guests at the Clinton Global Initiative on June 13, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois.