Rahm Emanuel

...a high-quality education, because without that, rather than doors being open, doors will be closed to their future,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel said at a press conference Tuesday. A WBEZ analysis of school performance shows only three closings sending kids to a top-performing...

...Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday he'll take his political lumps for his controversial school-closing plan because not only is it the job of the mayor to fix Chicago's schools, "that's the responsibility of being an adult," the Chicago Sun-Times reports. He made his...

..."Despite the testimony of thousands of parents, teachers and people who work and live in the school communities impacted, Rahm Emanuel is dedicated to entering the history books as having destroyed the most public schools in one year than anyone," union President...

...Beginning at 8:30 this morning with a Twitter Town Hall led by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that will include Jeb Bush, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and Condoleezza Rice – just a day after the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” immigration bill passed out of the Senate Judiciary...

...more than year until Gov. Pat Quinn filled it with his press secretary, Kelly Kraft, last year. Quinn and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel share appointment powers to the board. The authority is funded mostly with hotel tax revenue and subsidies but gets $1.5 million...

...Johnson. I’m from Marcus Garvey School, located on 103rd and Morgan. I come to you today to talk about the school closings. Rahm Emanuel thinks that we all are toys. He thinks that he can just come into our schools and move all our kids all over the gang lines...

...22, 2013 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Construction season is officially under way in the city of Chicago. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the start of more than $1.5 billion in roadway, waterway, and transit infrastructure projects for this year Tuesday. City officials...

...Rahm Emanuel’s hand-picked school board meets today to vote on more than 50 proposed school closings the administration says is necessary as it faces a massive deficit and declining enrollment. On the block are 53 neighborhood elementary schools and one high...

...Rahm Emanuel says the consequences he'll face by closing schools are less significant than those students would face by not taking action. Lawsuits allege closures discriminate on basis of race and violate rights of the disabled. Christian Farr reports. Chicago...