
With Tuesday’s release of the dashcam video of the death of Chicago teen Laquan McDonald, some are asking if the video was held back to help Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s reelection campaign earlier this year.
by Warner Todd Huston24 Nov 2015, 9:35 PM PST0

Chicago’s runoff election has been decided with Mayor Rahm Emanuel winning his first re-election bid after losing February’s general, suffering early close returns, and enduring a race that often broke down on racial lines.
by Warner Todd Huston7 Apr 2015, 7:33 PM PST0

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.
by Warner Todd Huston30 Mar 2015, 5:33 PM PST0

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.
by Warner Todd Huston20 Mar 2015, 5:45 PM PST0

Rahm Emanuel, Chicago’s mayor and President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, failed to win re-election on Tuesday in the Democratic primary—and will head to a runoff—a major embarrassment and defeat for the cutthroat Democrat and for Obama himself.
by Matthew Boyle24 Feb 2015, 7:43 PM PST0