Rahm Emanuel News

When the Obama administration was formulating the Affordable Care Act, policy advisers wanted to include medical malpractice reform.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel listens as Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy speaks at a press conference on September 10, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois.

One of the reasons that "The Wire" is still a timeless show, although scenes like tracking pagers make it look dated, is its ability to connect with issues that are going on in today's world.

You don't have to be a physicist to enjoy the energy, camaraderie and giddy thrill of discovery that radiates from this documentary about the search Liam Neeson must stop a series of murders on an airplane.

Chicago employers would be required to offer paid sick leave to all workers under a proposal introduced by City Councilmen Wednesday.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today that the Chicago Department of Transportation is conducting an audit of streets recently repaved by private contractors last year to determine if any potholes have formed, and will work with the contractors to make any necessary repair work or provide the City with reimbursement under quality assurance warranties.

A South Side alderman who got two warning notices recently after speeding around schools and parks is demanding that City Hall put up more and better signs to alert motorists to slow down.

Rahm Emanuel is always up to something dead fishy. The CNN reality TV series, "Chicagoland," which premieres Thursday night, and stars Emanuel as a "tough, visionary mayor" is fishy.

In his State of the Union address, President Obama urged mayors, governors and state legislators not to wait for Congress to raise the minimum wage, and to take action into their own hands.

Mayor de Blasio is headed to Chicago on Thursday to hobnob with other prominent mayors in his second out-of-town appearance since taking office.

There is actually a lot to like about "Chicagoland," the eight-part consideration of this city airing on CNN this spring starting March 6. Namely it gives us a look at the lives of people like Fenger High School principal Elizabeth Dozier and police commander Leo Schmitz.

Mounds of pet coke can be seen on the property of KCBX Terminals on Chicago's Southeast side.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel still hasn't let any aldermen reinstate metered parking on Sundays, despite promises last summer to do so after he announced a renegotiated parking meter deal.

Chicago's financial standing took a hit Tuesday when a major bond rating agency once again downgraded the city's credit worthiness because of a huge government worker pension shortfall and the overall amount of money it owes.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Wednesday that the revised parking meter contract is showing better than expected savings to motorists and the City.

The 8-episode series will debut on Thursday, March 6 at 10p.m. on CNN. . This image released by CNN shows Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a scene from the CNN documentary, "Chicagoland."

One of the striking and somewhat dispiriting revelations in the new batch of Clinton presidential archives released last week is just how little seems to have changed in the 20 years since Bill and Hillary Clinton entered the White House.

Already targeted as a source of lung-damaging air pollution, a company that has been piling petroleum coke on Chicago's Southeast Side now faces new accusations that it illegally allowed contaminated runoff to spill into the Calumet River.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is considering the possibility of a 5,000 seat expansion to Soldier Field, according to the Chicago Sun Times .

Sen. Kirk Dillard rips on Bruce Rauner's relationship with Mayor Rahm Emanuel and discusses his own relationship with the mayor at the GOP gubernatorial candidate forum.