One week after an accountability task force concluded Chicago cops have “no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel promised to institute immediate changes to the city’s police force, The New York Times reports.
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel has a long list of enemies. Near the top is the Chicago Teachers Union, with which he’s feuded for his entire tenure as mayor. This past Friday, the union staged a one-day strike, closing schools across the city in order to draw attention to their latest round of negotiations with the city,…
According to a police report, an aide to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Vance Henry, was physically assaulted at a prayer vigil on Sunday, the Chicago Tribune reports. The vigil was being held on the block where two people were shot and killed by Chicago police over the weekend.
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel addressed City Council this morning, where he continued to insist that his police department needs to be completely overhauled while also attempting to display an emotion heretofore foreign to the Emanuel brothers: Sadness.
The protracted fight to secure the release of video showing a Chicago cop killing unarmed teenager Laquan McDonald appears to have inspired the city to purge itself of its sins—or at least the ones that were also caught on video.
Politicians are generally beholden to police. One need look no further than what the NYPD did to Bill De Blasio nearly a year ago, after he admitted in public that he had told his son to be wary around cops, to see to the lengths police departments are willing to go to exert authority over a city’s elected leadership.
Who would have thought a softball question from Mike Allen could end so disastrously?
Rahm Emanuel has said the right things in public about the Laquan McDonald travesty, even if behind closed doors he’s been a force for something less than total justice. The reported details of a series of meetings Emanuel had with a number of black civic leaders from Chicago’s South Side prior to the release of the…
Today, a week after officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with murder in the death of teenager Laquan McDonald, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel fired Chicago Police Department Superintendent Garry McCarthy. Emanuel’s decision, right as it may be, hardly calls for any sort of applause.
The ongoing (but maybe soon to end?) teachers' strike in Chicago is being viewed by many as an early skirmish in a coming war over the crisis in public education—stagnant or declining graduation rates, substandard educations, dilapidated schools, angry teachers, underserved students. There is one simple step that…
That back-to-school chill is in the air, except in Chicago, where 26,000 public school teachers and support staff are on strike and more than 350,000 students are just fucking off all day instead of learning. Even though Chicago is a dull provincial city of little national import, everybody is talking about the strike…
Mike Konkoleski, a 10th grade math teacher at Eric Solorio Academy High School, was identified as the man behind the audacious assault on Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel's character in the form of a protest sign declaring Emanuel a fan of Nickelback.
There's no telling how long the Chicago Teachers Union strike — the first strike of its kind in the city in a quarter-century — will last, but, as this photo clearly shows, the protests have already taken a turn for the dirty.
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is no stranger to fast food meddling: this is the same guy who fought against obesity with a ban on large sugary drinks.
Chicago alderman Joe Moreno has moved to block Chick-fil-A's from opening its second Windy City location in his ward.
Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel used his private Gmail account to communicate with Attorney General Eric Holder during his time in the White House, according to the results of Freedom of Information Act request we filed. Though the Department of Justice has acknowledged just one email exchange with…
An Occupy Chicago protester sent in these photos of some ominous-looking equipment installed recently at the top of a street lamp across the street from Occupy Chicago HQ, at the corners of Jackson and LaSalle in Chicago's financial district. They write:
There is a new book out about the Obama presidency—Confidence Men, by Pulitzer-winning former Wall Street Journal writer Ron Suskind—and you know what that means! Hot gossip. Hot political gossip.
Baggy-eyed, battered and desperately in need of a cigarette, President Barack Obama limped across the birthday finish line today, making it to a round half-century: Our Commander-in-Chief is now 50 years old.
Short-fused Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has formally decreed that all children below the age of 12 must be off the streets by 8:30 p.m. on school nights, and 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, saying, "It brings a level of responsibility and accountability to our streets and in our homes."
