Tag: Rahm Emanuel

A six-month-old boy and three others were shot last night while sitting inside a car in the South Loop neighborhood of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago.

The now outgoing Rahm Emanuel administration is touting a deal to give away about 20 acres of historic Jackson Park to the controversial “Obama Center” for the tiny payment of $10 for a 99-year lease.

Former first lady Michelle Obama is visiting Chicago to sell a book about herself as Chicago’s body count mounts.

“Chicago is better and stronger for his leadership,” Obama wrote in a statement emailed to reporters, praising Rahm Emanuel’s service as his first White House Chief of Staff, as a congressman, and as the Mayor of Chicago. 

Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) ended his aspirations for a third term as the number of shot and wounded in Chicago continues to rise.

A group of activists led by a Chicago minister plan to shut down the primary highway leading to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Labor Day.

At least 28 people were shot, two of whom were killed, over the weekend in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s (D) Chicago.

Fourteen people were shot, two fatally, between Friday and Saturday morning in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s (D) Chicago.

A pair of teenage boys were found dead in a field on Chicago’s South Side during a weekend where 61 were shot, six killed, and a “peace picnic” was disrupted by gunfire.

More than 50 individuals were shot, six fatally, over the weekend in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s (D) Chicago. NBC 5 reports that five of the six fatalities occurred on Sunday and that four of those were teenagers. 

Three people were shot and another individual was assaulted at a “peace picnic” in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s (D) Chicago on Saturday night.

At least 12 people were shot between Saturday morning and Sunday morning in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s (D) Chicago.

Criticism of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel concerning the violence that has gripped the city is growing, including from black leaders.

“They had 63 incidents last weekend and 12 deaths,” Trump said during a roundtable on prison reform on Thursday. “That’s bad stuff happening.”

Rudy Giuliani — former mayor of New York City, NY, and current legal counsel for President Donald Trump — connected the murder rate in Chicago, IL, to Democratic dominance in the Windy City. 

Protesters plan to shut down yet another busy Chicago street, this time it is to be the city’s famed Lake Shore Drive which will be brought to a standstill by protesters marching against the rising violence in the Windy City.

A Freedom of Information Act request by the Baltimore Post reveals that former Obama White House officials strategized how best to exploit the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack for gun control before the victims of said attack were even buried.

Hundreds of Chicago police officers descended on City Hall Wednesday, in another sign the relationship between law enforcement and Mayor Rahm Emanuel continues to deteriorate. 

For more than a week since the mass shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Americans have suffered through another one of our periodic fights about gun control, which are painful, divisive, and ultimately irresolvable.

Just when you thought the Big Freeze couldn’t get any worse, here’s Al Gore to twist the knife and grab a Rahm-Emanuel-style opportunity to promote his renewables scam.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is crowing on late night TV shows that he is re-branding his city as “the city Trump will never sleep in” even as his streets run red with the blood of the city’s youth and his budget drowns in red ink.

On Monday’s broadcast of CBS’ “The Late Show,” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel stated that being a sanctuary city is in Chicago’s history because it was the only city that didn’t participate in the Fugitive Slave Act. Host Stephen Colbert asked

A federal judge in Illinois on Friday ruled against two parts of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) policy of denying federal funds to sanctuary cities, but sustained a key third part, in a mixed decision that both sides will now appeal.

Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) urged DACA recipients and other immigrants on Wednesday to come to Ohio, telling CBS This Morning that the so-called DREAMers should go to his state if they “want to go somewhere and live.”

Jumping into the debate over President Donald Trump’s actions on DACA on Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel told the Windy City’s school children that they should not fear deportation when they are at school. City schools, Emanuel proclaimed, are “Trump-free” zones.

President Donald Trump should urge Congress to attach a major infrastructure bill to the anticipated legislation to provide emergency assistance to areas hit by Hurricane Harvey when legislators return in September.

A new law being pushed in Illinois would make it illegal for law enforcement officers to arrest illegal aliens on the basis of their immigration status.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired a shot across the bow of so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions like Chicago Wednesday from Miami, where a dramatic shift to compliance with federal immigration enforcement took place.

The Department of Justice has informed Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez that Miami-Dade County is in compliance with federal immigration law and, thus, eligible for $480,000 in grant funding for law-enforcement operations in the county.

“Chicago Guns Matter” founder Rhonda Ezell says citizens have same right as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to enjoy protection via firearms.

Chicago’s Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel took an extraordinary swipe at New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, both Democrats, on Monday over the Big Apple’s subway crisis — bragging about the Windy City’s subway system in the New York Times.

As the City of Chicago gets closer to being rated near junk bond status and as it sinks into debt with a $137.6 million budget deficit, City Hall has decided to erect an anti-Trump “sculpture” near the city’s Trump Tower.

Mayors Rahm Emanuel and Bill de Blasio are fighting against legislation that would recognize national concealed carry reciprocity for law-abiding citizens.

Sunday on CNN’ “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Republicans in Congress do not understand President Donald Trump base. Emanuel said, “The talk about health care vis-a-vis his base, I think, misread what his bass wanted. I think

Sunday on CNN’ “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said President Donald Trump strategy was to keep his base “on amphetamines,” which was to say also “highly charged.” Emanuel said, “Their strategy is very straightforward: get their voters, and