As Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel makes his first bid for re-election in the Windy City, his opponent is running a populist campaign against Emanuel’s connections to the one percent. It is an easy argument to make with the big money donors Rahm has, especially his deep pocketed Republican backer, Billionaire Kenneth Griffin.
CHICAGO, March 31 (UPI) — Chicago police said at least two motorists have been robbed in the Fuller Park neighborhood by thieves using fake roadblocks to get people to exit their cars.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is fighting for his political life in the city’s first ever mayoral runoff election, and now a staffer for challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia is revealing that their internal polling is showing there is “no way” Rahm can win re-election.
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The decision by courageous women in Kabul, Afghanistan, to defy the orders of mullahs and carry the coffin of a young woman, Farkhunda—slain for the false accusation of burning the Quran— took me to a dramatic moment last spring when I faced off against an imam, not in some faraway city in our Muslim world, but in our own backyard, right here in the United States, in the Chicago suburb of Elgin, Ill.
Zainab Khan, a Muslim women’s rights activist, writes in the Daily Beast about her struggle with Mohammed Abdullah Saleem–a Chicago imam, described as the “Billy Graham of Islam,” currently facing charges of sexual assault from a 23-year-old former employee.
As the runoff election to determine who will be the next mayor of Chicago grows near, New York Magazine has proclaimed that challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia is the Windy City’s Bill de Blasio.
Even the cold weather didn’t depress the violence in Chicago this weekend. Over the chilly weekend, 13 were wounded and 4 died. Among those killed in the region was an Indiana father of two who died from a stabbing.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has unexpectedly found himself in the political battle of his life with a whole host of important sectors of the electorate lining up against his re-election. Now, a powerful union has launched a brutal ad slamming the mayor over his record.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been one of the more famously partisan left-wingers in recent memory, but despite that reputation, he has been the happy recipient of millions in donations from Republicans in this political fight of his life. And desperate for support, Emanuel is turning to the city’s small GOP contingent to regain office.
Rahm Emanuel’s path to re-election as Chicago’s mayor just got a little murkier. On Monday a large group of African American ministers led by Operation Push activist Jesse Jackson endorsed Rahm’s opponent, Jesus “Chuy” Garcia.
Chicago had its first warm weather of the year over the March 6 weekend, but as that warm weather returned, so did the violence, shootings, and death. Chicago police reported that 2 stabbings and 15 shootings occurred in their warming city; three died as a result.
Thanks to the dual threat of a rooftop owners’ lawsuits and a harsh winter, the refurbishing of Wrigley Field has been slowed to a crawl. It has been so bad that the Cubs even considered playing home games up in Milwaukee.
Rahm Emanuel is the first mayor in Chicago’s history forced into a run-off election.
Despite having tens of millions in his campaign coffers Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel could not reach the 50 percent threshold to win re-election this month.
Lady Gaga and Vince Vaughn made plunges into the icy waters of Chicago’s Lake Michigan at a fundraiser for the Special Olympics.
President Obama says Rand Paul is interesting, and that the South Side of Chicago would be friendly to him, if the conservative senator wanted to visit.
As this horrible winter rages on, record low temperatures are being set from Chicago to Washington, D.C., and snow is still piling up in places like Maine and Vermont. It all adds up to dangerous winter conditions for much of the country, and it will continue for the next week.
We previously reported on a narco-terror conspirator named Emad Karakra. Karakrah was a member of the terrorist cell behind the attempted 2009 bombing of Oprah Winfrey’s Chicago studios and the Sears Tower building. He is back on the loose after being incarcerated, compliments of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Calling them the “most significant drug dealers” he’d dealt with in two decades on the bench, U.S. District Chief Judge Ruben Castillo sentenced twins Pedro and Margarito Flores to 14 years each in prison for smuggling at least 71 tons of cocaine and heroin and nearly $2 billion in cash from 2005 to 2008 for Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel. The Flores brothers served as the control point for the drug trafficking organization in the Windy City for years, and would have received life sentence had they not agreed to fully cooperate with U.S. authorities to bring down major players in the cartel.
Chicago Sun-Times columnist and Washington Bureau Chief Lynn Sweet said that former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s “abrasive personality” and “brashness” in addition to “a rough four years” of governing were hindering Emanuel’s campaign for re-election as Chicago’s Mayor
An Islamic leader in a Chicago suburb who has been hailed as the Muslim “Billy Graham” has been accused of sexual assault of an employee at the Institute of Islamic Education that he founded.
The owners of two rooftop seating businesses are taking the Chicago Cubs to court to stop plans to erect new video scoreboards in the outfield, signs that will block the view from their seats.
David Haugh, co-host of “Kap and Haugh” on Chicago’s Comcast Sportsnet, responded on Wednesday to a question on what would happen in the situation of the Jackie Robinson West Little League team were compromised of white players. The team, all
Just days before Chicago elects a mayor, President Obama will visit his home city, perhaps as a way to buck up the campaign of his former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.
