Breaking News about Rahm Emanuel

...and it shall not stand. “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Remember these words spoken Feb. 9, 2009, by Rahm Emanuel, then President Obama’s chief of staff and now mayor of Chicago? Since that is how the Democratic Party treated any misstep...

...of him smoking crack. I have no idea whether the video is genuine or not, but Ford is a distinctly odd character. He makes Rahm Emanuel look like a normal human being; in some respects, anyway. New York Magazine compiled a list of 20 things you should know...

...the city since Friday night. The Chicago Teachers Union is launching a three-day march around the city in protest of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal to close dozens of schools. The Chicago Teachers Union is launching a three-day march around the city in protest...

...Python\" to portray the seriousness of the state's worst-in-the-nation pension crisis. But Quinn also boldly defied Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel by vetoing a casino for his city. In the first three months of 2013, Madigan raised $830,000, and she has $4.3 million...

...and wiring — and the warlike behavior of some of the young men who live there. All of which comes to mind now that Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced his $1.1 billion \"Elevate Chicago\" plan to reinvigorate Navy Pier and expand McCormick Place with a pair of...

...in 2011, Candidate Rahm Emanuel warned Chicagoans that their City Hall had to fix its finances or risk entering into eternal rest. The distance from broke government to broken government, he observed, is short: Without restoring financial health, this city...

...their families. Considering thousands of teachers in the nation’s 3rd largest school district walked off the job, Mayor Rahm Emanuel had a lot to deal with on that September day. The reason the teachers started rioting in the first place was the announcement...

...as “next to impossible.” Last month, he warned Illinois entrepreneurs to “get out while there’s still time.” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel had a ready retort: “We don’t have to measure our showers like they do in Texas.” Emanuel’s jab was well aimed. Texas’ drought...

...Any plan to seed development there deserves consideration. But it has to be the right plan, and as worthy as Mayor Rahm Emanuel's $1.1 billion building proposal is, this doesn't quite do it. In a gesture that happens to coincide with Mr. Emanuel's second anniversary...

...the march Saturday. The idea is to rally in different parts of the city and converge Monday to deliver a petition to Mayor Rahm Emanuel demanding a moratorium on the closure plan. Emanuel wants to shut 54 schools to help save money, but the plan has been met...

...around 4:30 p.m. at Mahaila Jackson Elementary School, 917 W. 88th St. Gwenett Jenkins, 34, a CPS teacher, was one of the protesters expressing anger at local officials, including Mayor Rahm Emanuel. \"You can't just chop off 54 schools,\" Jenkins said....

...gun convictions during a news conference Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, in Chicago. During the news conference McCarthy Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez said they'll push for state legislation that increases the minimum sentences...

...the march Saturday. The idea is to rally in different parts of the city and converge Monday to deliver a petition to Mayor Rahm Emanuel demanding a moratorium on the closure plan. Emanuel wants to shut 54 schools to help save money, but the plan has been met...

After saying good-bye at the corner of West 70th Street and South Stewart Avenue Jaleel Carr, 13, walks to Yale Elementary School April 22, 2013. | Jessica Koscielniak ~ Sun-Times Tall and beaming, Diana Carr guards the vacant lot at 70th and Stewart, pr

...(AP) — The Chicago Teachers Union is launching a three-day march around the city in protest of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposal to close dozens of schools. It starts Saturday and organizers are billing it as a march for “education justice.” Emanuel is moving...

...finance racially tinged attacks against President Obama during his re-election campaign. (Obama is a Chicagoan, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel is his former chief of staff). In January, the Cubs changed course and offered to finance the construction as long as they...

...public fears in a relatively low crime area of the city. News of those attacks have become especially problematic for Mayor Rahm Emanuel whenever he tries to reassure the public that North Michigan Avenue is safe. He's even had to implore reporters to be more...

...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 regulators from taking away its license. The legislation also would grant the mayor authority to seize land...

...when you are ripping it out of the ground and building a new railroad from the ground up. Q: How often have you talked to Mayor Rahm Emanuel about this project? A: Regularly. I talk to the mayor weekly about this and other projects. . . . This is one of the...

...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 district’s plan to close schools, was reelected to a second three-year term Friday, according...