Rahm Emanuel News

As Illinois's state lawmakers wrap up their spring session with a last-minute flurry of activity and negotiation, it's a fairly sure bet that a gambling expansion bill will be part of this frenzy, as it has been in every session in recent years.

Chicago can celebrate a long holiday weekend after the disaster of this week. By Tuesday most people's memories of the tragic, terrible, and horrific events greater, even than, the Chicago Fire will be erased.

Across the globe, predatory capitalism spreads its gospel of power, greed, commodification, gentrification, and inequality.

Some city officials say the private company that manages the city's parking meters will actually come out millions of dollars ahead under Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposed deal.

Illinois Rep. Elaine Nekritz, D-Buffalo Grove speaks to lawmakers including Illinois Rep.

In the months before the Chicago Board of Education voted to close 50 schools next year, thousands of teachers, parents, and students pleaded for their schools to stay open during hearings and protests.

The United Neighborhood Organization needs to adopt "robust conflict-of-interest" policies in the wake of a scandal that's jeopardized tens of millions of dollars of state funding for UNO's network of charter schools in Chicago, a retired federal judge hired by the politically influential group urged Thursday.

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis has threatened to defeat Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2015 at the polls for a second-term for the closing of forty-nine schools.

As Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel celebrates his mid-point year in office he also faces a number of controversies that have forced both pundits and citizens to reevaluate, not only his leadership, but also his ability to take the city from deficit to surplus, and to attract, and retain a base of support.

In 1980, the Chicago Tribune 's Richard C. Longworth wrote this city's epitaph. The steel mills were closing.

Earlier this week, thousands of students and parents and supporters rallied in Chicago to protest plans to shutter 53 public schools, disproportionately affecting black, low-income families .

When Gregory Glinsey was fatally shot while buying ice for his mother's 80th birthday party, the emotional toll on his family was incalculable.

Chicago's City Council has voted to award Clear Channel Airports a new five-year contract with five one-year extension options to provide indoor digital media programs at O'Hare and Midway International airports.

The Chicago board of education voted Wednesday to close 50 schools and programs, an ambitious plan that has sparked protests and lawsuits and could help define - for better or worse - Mayor Rahm Emanuel's term in office.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is seen listening to Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at a sister cities agreement in September last year.

"School reform" is one of those phrases that everybody, it seems, can get behind.

Nine-year-old Asean Johnson delivered a speech at Monday's downtown rally that has already been viewed over 30,000 times on YouTube.

Chicago Public Schools officials were set to vote Wednesday on a controversial plan to close dozens of schools across the city, but some schools will be spared from the list, a CPS official confirms.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel discusses the plan to close 53 elementary schools a day ahead of a Chicago Board of Education vote on the plan.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, City officials and labor leaders today announced more than $1.5 billion in roadway, waterway and transit infrastructure projects will be completed during the 2013 construction season and support 6,500 jobs as the city begins the second year of its ambitious Building a New Chicago infrastructure program.