Rahm Emanuel: Our responsibility to Chicago's youngest generation

_ Mayor Rahm Emanuel is promoting a casino at an undisclosed location over which hed have incredible power. The bidding process to choose a vendor would be sealed, and records would be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act until after the ...

_ Mayor Rahm Emanuel pleads poverty when it comes to education, public safety and Wrigley Field upgrades. But now he says a new basketball stadium for DePaul University is necessary, even though owners of the United Center offered the venue for ...

Pressured for months by teachers, community leaders and aldermen, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's hand-picked school board is nonetheless expected on Wednesday to approve closing all but a few of the 53 elementary schools the administration wants to shut down.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel today visited the National Restaurant Association (NRA) Hotel Motel Show, an annual event that has become a rite of spring for restaurateurs around North America. The NRA Show attracts some 60,000 attendees to McCormick Place each ...

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel made it official Monday. He's tapped socialite/businesswoman (or is that businesswoman/socialite?) Desiree Rogers to head up the board of directors of ChooseChicago, the city's tourism and convention development arm. In ...

_ Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, an often controversial leader who took on Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a strike last fall and has been leading the fight against the districts plan to close schools, was reelected to a second three-year term ...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel spent much of Thursday fleshing out the funding details for "Elevate Chicago," his grand plan to raise the city's profile as a tourism and convention destination. With an expanded McCormick Place and a re-imagined Navy Pier coming ...

but Rahm Emanuel's recently renegotiated city parking meter deal is at last getting pushback from some aldermen. , Chicago aldermen finally have actual details on the re-worked plan. Aldermen also have 30 days to approve the deal — unlike former ...

Chicago would be able to dodge areas of oversight all similar facilities in Illinois face Mayor Rahm Emanuel is pushing lawmakers to pass a gambling bill that would allow the city to weigh its choice of a casino operator in secret and forbid state ...