Mayor Rahm Emmanuel

  CHICAGO (AP) — The city of Chicago released thousands of email messages from Mayor Rahm Emanuel‘s personal accounts on Wednesday as part of a settlement with a government watchdog organization. Emanuel’s office said it was making public any messages pertaining to city business that were sent to and from Emanuel dating to 2011, when […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel appealed to Chicago residents for help fighting the troubling rise in city violence, announcing youth mentoring efforts, policing strategies and gun legislation as his plan to fight and prevent crime. He used the invitation-only speech Thursday to cap off announcements in recent days that the city will add nearly […]

Chicago's Independent Police Review authority, which investigates claims of misconduct and excessive force, released the videos derived from 101 cases.

  Rev. Al Sharpton talks about the social injustice in Chicago and questions why Mayor Rahm Emmanuel would still be on vacation in light of the two murders in his city. “So now you’re going to stay on vacation when a grandmother is shot. The grandmother was opening the door for the police. She gets killed […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Kind words were in short supply for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel at the premiere of Spike Lee‘s “Chi-Raq” on Tuesday night. Emmanuel fired the city’s police superintendent Tuesday after tensions flared over the release of a graphic video that showed a black teenager, Laquan McDonald, being shot 16 times by a […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago school and city officials detailed $200 million in cuts — including layoffs, scaled-back maintenance and reduced transportation — to the nation’s third-largest school district Wednesday, one day after the district paid a $634 million pension bill officials said it couldn’t afford. Mayor Rahm Emanuel said schools would still open on time […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A South Side neighborhood in Chicago is getting long-sought federal protection from President Barack Obama, whose visit on Thursday could also provide a political lift to the city’s mayor. Obama will formally designate the neighborhood where African-American railroad workers won a historic labor agreement in the 1930s. In the process, the president’s […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has introduced an ordinance that would allow the transfer of park district land to the city for use by an Obama presidential library. Emanuel said during Wednesday’s City Council meeting that the ordinance has the support of several aldermen. It is aimed at substantially improving the city’s odds […]