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
This week at The National Press Club when asked if Democrats can retake the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2018 midterms, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) said that the Democratic Party was “1,000 seats” behind the Republican Party at this
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio promised Wednesday to uphold the Paris climate agreement in the Big Apple, even if President Trump chooses to withdraw — making de Blasio one of a growing number of liberal mayors to promise to do so.
Forty-nine people were shot and wounded and six were killed during Memorial Day Weekend violence in gun-controlled Chicago.
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said immigrants who come here illegally and their children were “part of the Chicago family.” Emanuel said, “The kids who go to our schools, the dreamers, all the kids,
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration in Chicago launched a pro-immigration, pro-foreign refugee campaign designed to help get newcomers to the U.S. on public services.
During an interview with Politico, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel stated that Democrats “come off, and can come off as a party disdainful of” the middle class. Emanuel said, “I think don’t we talk about, and fight for the middle class
Federal prosecutors have recommended a 7.5-year jail sentence for former Chicago Public Schools chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett who pleaded guilty to corruption charges in 2015.
Monday on CNBC, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel reacted to Attorney General Jeff Sessions threats to cut grants for cities who don’t follow immigration law and declared to immigrants, “We welcome you to Chicago.” Emanuel said,”You are looking a person who’s a
Politics is one of those sports where the team playing defense doesn’t get to score many points. Democrats are working hard to keep President Trump on defense, using an even more aggressive version of the same playbook they run against every Republican president. They think the collapse of Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare repeal legislation last week gave them a new first down. Here are seven signs the Trump agenda has regained a great deal of momentum in just one day.
David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, was fined $90,000 by the Chicago Board of Ethics in a 5-0 vote for improperly lobbying Mayor Rahm Emanuel on behalf of Uber Technologies.
Before his inauguration and since taking office, Donald J. Trump has repeatedly said he would send the feds into Chicago to help the city deal with its incessant gang violence and out of control murder rate. Now a report notes that members of Trump’s Department of Justice will soon visit The Windy City to do just that.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Democrats care more about being right than winning on Monday and told them to “take a chill pill” during a talk at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Monday in California at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, former Obama White House chief of staff and current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Democrats needed to “take a chill pill” and prepare for a long-term build up of the
A new report finds that the City of Chicago has a wider racial wealth gap than the national average, with white households earning more than minorities.
Wednesday on ABC’s “The View,” reacting to President Donald Trump’s tweet on Chicago violence, co-host Whoopi Goldberg said, “that’s starting to smack of martial law.” http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/824080766288228352 Goldberg said, “He had this tweet yesterday, you know he’s been talking about what’s
A recent study of the violence in Barack Obama’s adopted home town of Chicago shows that the most at-risk group in the Windy City are its African American residents.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – President-Elect Donald Trump will not have to do much when it comes to prosecuting sanctuary cities, USA Today notes.
During a January 7 interview on NPR, Chicago Police Board Chairwoman Lori Lightfoot said Chicago cannot end the city’s violence alone — they need federal help.
No place better represents Obama’s failure as a president than Chicago, which has suffered mightily on his watch. More people were murdered in Chicago last year than New York and Los Angeles combined, and this week’s live-streamed torture of a disabled white teenager is a reflection of the sad state of race relations.
Chicago and gun control are so intertwined that the legacy of one is the legacy of the other. With that said, it is worth noting that “about 91 percent” of Chicago homicides in 2016 were committed with a firearm, according to the Chicago Tribune.
n an effort to defy federal immigration law and an upcoming plan by President-Elect Donald Trump to tighten immigration policies, the City of Los Angeles is setting up a “legal fund” to shield illegal immigrants from the law.
A municipality just outside Chicago, Illinois has now pledged itself to be a home for illegal aliens who want to be shielded from federal immigration law, officially claiming the mantle as a sanctuary city.
