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Tag: Mayor Emanuel
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Prediction: Our failure to build the Lucas museum won’t haunt Chicago for decades
The George Lucas museum Chicago won’t built wasn’t that big a deal
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Mayor Rahm takes off his sweater, drops an F-bomb in the New Yorker’s Father Pfleger profile
“All the assumptions you have about me are fucking wrong,” Emanuel tells the New Yorker‘s Evan Osnos.
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Hey, Governor Rauner—open the books!
As long as Rauner wants Rahm to open up the CPS books, Rauner should have to open the state’s books to Rahm’s bean counters.
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With CPS-takeover proposal, Rauner tries to take Rahm down with him
I’m starting to wonder if Rauner’s anger at the mayor is for real.
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Hey, Mayor Rahm, reopen the mental health clinics!
Looking to blame someone or something for the failures of his reign, Mayor Rahm discovers “mental health crises” four years after he closed mental health clinics in low-income, high-crime neighborhoods.
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Rahm’s nightmare: Dick Simpson is applying for Chicago’s election board
The legendary reform alderman wants a say in who gets on Chicago’s ballots.
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You had your chance to recall Mayor Rahm, Chicago
When Chicago voters had a chance to bounce Mayor Rahm from office they were as soft as the Bulls fourth-quarter defense.
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Rauner cries for you, Laquan. Or does he?
Who’s telling the truth: Mayor Rahm when he says he didn’t watch the McDonald video, or Governor Rauner when he says it made him cry?
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Mayor Rahm’s principal merit pay award goes to his biggest school critic
Troy LaRaviere, one of the mayor’s most outspoken school critics, won three straight mayoral merit pay awards.
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Alderman Joravsky considers voting for Mayor Rahm’s budget
If I were alderman, how would I have voted on the mayor’s budget?
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Mayor Rahm tries and fails to tell the truth about TIFs and taxes
The mayor doesn’t tell the truth about TIFs and taxes even while trying to abide by the state’s “Truth-in- Taxation Law.”
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Rauneromics: Tax credits for ConAgra, budget cuts for everyone else
While social service programs and education throughout the state get cut, Illinois governor Bruce Rauner forks over as much as $1.26 million in tax credits to poach ConAgra from Omaha.
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Mayor Rahm runs out on his own budget hearing
As last night’s hearing at the South Shore Cultural Center showed, the Mayor was going through the motions when he solicited budget ideas and suggestions from Chicago’s citizens.