Rahm Emanuel News

Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to make sure drivers don't have the same problem next year, so he's planning to have more than 330 miles of streets resurfaced this year.

Illinois has one of the worst pension messes in the nation as the cost of government employee benefits is sending state, county, and local governments into bankruptcy crises all across the state.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is counting on speed cameras installed around Chicago schools and parks to bankroll $70 million worth of children's programs this year.

Yet he shows the Founding document little respect . He rewrites his Obamacare law without bothering with any of the inconvenient procedures prescribed in Article 1. His "executive actions" and Justice Department harassment of journalists who ask tough questions threatens the First Amendment, and rampant executive snooping eviscerates the Fourth.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is unopposed for re-election, so she's focusing much of her political effort and spending some of her campaign cash to ensure that three allies are nominated in the Democratic primary.

More tankers such as this one could start shipping liquefied natural gas from the U.S. to the rest of the world if the Department of Energy approves pending applications for new LNG export terminals.

Georgia GOP politicians were none too pleased with President Barack Obama's proposed federal budget that left out hundreds of millions of dollars they had hoped would help deepen the Savannah Port.

The annual Polar Plunge into Lake Michigan has broken its fundraising records by raising more than $1 million for Special Olympics Chicago.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cultural Affairs Commissioner Michelle Boone double-teamed the city of Austin on Tuesday in what was essentially a daylong info-mercial for Chicago as a musical and cultural force.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel never passes up an opportunity to sell Chicago as he made a business trip to Austin, Texas for the South by Southwest festival.

The recent Conservative Political Action Conference provides a forum for big names.

A new statewide poll of Illinois residents, released yesterday by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University and reported today by the Chicago Sun-Times shows more people in the Chicago area feel less safe with passage of concealed carry in the Prairie State.

Question: When does a pothole become more than just a pothole? Answer: When it's a hole 5- or 6-feet deep in the middle of a busy street that's growing bigger because a late-night call to 911 wasn't enough to get it fixed.

A trade newspaper for the city's taxi industry has threatened to out five aldermen who it claims are "secretly gay," unless the City Council bans ride-sharing services like Uber, Lyft, and SideCar.

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Fallon traveled to the Windy City to join Mayor Rahm Emanuel and over 3,200 Chicagoans in taking a dip into icy Lake Michigan waters on March 2. "You didn't see any black people there," Harvey replied, causing the crowd to erupt in laughter.

The Tribune 's John Kass writes of CNN documentary Chicagoland : "It's good TV, good drama.

Chicago, Illinois and Providence, Rhode Island are in a neck and neck battle for the worst funded city in America.

Potholes along Chicago's 1,055 miles of arterial streets are getting triage treatment - even though cold patch lasts only a day or two in some cases.

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel claims that his brother Rahm--then-chief of staff at the White House, now mayor of Chicago--told him to "Shut the f--- up!" when he raised the topic of tort reform during internal administration debates on Obamacare.