Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
Recent News About Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
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Longtime CPS activist Katten suddenly silent on school issues
Wendy Katten is unusually quiet.
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Some fiction, some fact found in Emanuel's boast of Chicago recovery
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel used some fuzzy math to boast about the speed of Chicago’s growth during his 2018 budget address, the Better Government Association (BGA) said recently.
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Emanuel applauds Senate override of school funding bill veto
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel cheered the Illinois Senate for Sunday's override of Gov. Bruce Rauner's "flat wrong" amendatory veto of the state's public school funding bill, according to Capitol Fax.
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Emanuel cries foul after Rauner's veto of school funding bill
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel attacked Gov. Bruce Rauner on Tuesday for Rauner's amendatory veto of Senate Bill 1, arguing that the governor is putting politics above students.
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Gov. Rauner issues amendatory veto to school funding bill
On August 1, Gov. Bruce Rauner issued an amendatory veto to the school funding bill Senate Bill 1.
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Rauner signs law targeting repeat gun offenders
Repeat gun offenders in Illinois face tougher sentencing guidelines under a bill signed into law Gov. Bruce Rauner recently, according to a press release.
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Inconsistencies abound in state law enforcement training, group contends
Recurring absenteeism, possible deflections regarding accountability and other inconsistencies are troubling the Edgar County Watchdogs (ECW) after a perusal of training standards for state law enforcement personnel, the group said on its website recently.
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Chicago sued over lead testing records
A government oversight group has sued Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration for allegedly failing to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request regarding lead testing in the city's public schools.
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Emanuel slammed for alleged lobbying violations
Politicians on both sides of the aisle reacted angrily to a recent newspaper report that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel appears to have violated a city ethics law by allegedly lobbying via his personal email accounts.
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Watchdogs: Chicago should shine light on trust failure
The City of Chicago is preparing to replace high-pressure sodium lights with energy-efficient LEDs in 270,000 streetlights, but the investigative non-profit known as the Better Government Association (BGA) says residents have been kept in the dark about where the money to do the work is coming from.
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Obama connection to Chicago props up Illinois politics as usual, communications director says
For better or worse, Chicago informed former President Barack Obama at least as much as Obama informed Chicago, a communications director for a Chicago-area political group said during a radio broadcast.
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Some worry Emanuel plea for rosy rating could backfire
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's request to Moody's Investors Services to reconsider the poor rating it gave the city has been met with concerns that if he gets his way, it could end up being worse for Chicago.
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Chicago bond rating scraping bottom when compared with other major U.S. cities
The City of Chicago lies mired at the bottom of a list of the 15 largest U.S. cities in terms of its bond rating, the Wall Street rating agency Standard & Poor's reported recently.
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Some Emanuel email redactions restored
Some of the blacked-out text in Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's recently released emails has been restored, the Chicago-based Better Government Association (BGA) reported recently.
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Liberty Justice Center sues Chicago over 2016 home-sharing ordinance
The Liberty Justice Center (LJC) filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Chicago on Nov. 15, alleging that the constitutional rights of Chicago homeowners and renters are violated by a newly adopted ordinance that places a ban on home sharing by homeowners and renters, and imposes an elevated tax to those who rent for vacation purposes.
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BGA, others force Emanuel to release work-related private emails
Following a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filing and lawsuits, Illinois’ Better Government Association (BGA) recently succeeded in forcing Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to release private emails that pertain to city business.
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Trump threat against 'sanctuary' cities could cost Chicago over $3 billion in aid next year
The City of Chicago could lose billions in federal aid in 2017 if President-elect Donald Trump carries through on his plan to deny funding to communities that do not help deport illegal aliens, the Better Government Association said.
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Editorial: Mayor Emanuel could learn a yuge lesson from President Trump
For every new one created, two existing ones must be eliminated. That's President-elect Donald Trump's proposal for dealing with the outrageous growth in federal regulations.
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WikiLeaks: Emanuel's private emails to Clinton campaign under scrutiny
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is under fire for using a private email account for government business, WikiLeaks said.
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Advocacy group calls for more accountability from Chicago city officials
The State of Illinois has instituted many solid transparency laws over the years, but it appears that these laws do not apply to many public officials, who flat out refuse to follow them, an advocacy group said.