Rahm Emanuel is the mayor of Chicago. He was elected on Feb. 22, 2011. Emanuel is former White House chief of staff under President Barack Obama. Emanuel represented the 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2003 until his resignation in 2009 when he took his position in the Obama Administration. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1981 with a Liberal Arts degree, and received an M.A. in Speech and Communication from Northwestern University in 1985. He is married with three children.
Rahm Emanuel is the mayor of Chicago. He was elected on Feb. 22, 2011. Emanuel is former White House chief of staff under President Barack Obama. Emanuel represented the 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2003 until his resignation in 2009 when he took his position in the Obama Administration. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1981 with a Liberal Arts degree, and received an M.A. in Speech and Communication from Northwestern University in 1985. He is married with three children.
Displaying items 1-12 of 2617
» View chicagobreakingbusiness.com items only
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-219
•
Next >
-
Protesters: Route to new school a 'danger zone'
Tribune reporterBeads of sweat dripped down Jitu Brown’s face as he addressed about 150 marchers who had gathered on Sunday afternoon outside Overton Elementary School in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood. The school at East 49th Street and South Indiana...Tags: Oakland (Chicago, Illinois), Kenwood, Teaching and Learning, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Chicago Public Schools
-
Emanuel names Desiree Rogers chairman of Choose Chicago
By Tribune staffMayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday appointed former White House social secretary Desiree Rogers as board chairman of Choose Chicago, as has been expected. Rogers, now CEO of Ebony and Jet parent Johnson Publishing Co., steps into the volunteer post vacated...Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Chicago Mayor, Tourism and Leisure, White House
-
Don Welsh focuses boundless energy on promoting Chicago
Don Welsh, Chicago's top convention and tourism salesman, early this month embarked on one of the most high-wire sales trips of his tenure here — flying to rival Las Vegas in an attempt to win back the National Hardware Show, once a cornerstone...
Tags: Video Supplies and Services, Photography and Video, Lollapalooza, Desirée Rogers, Basketball
-
School-closing foes take to the streets again
Beads of sweat dripped down Jitu Brown's face as he addressed about 150 marchers who had gathered Sunday afternoon outside Overton Elementary School in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood. The school at East 49th Street and South Indiana Avenue is slated...
Tags: Oakland (Chicago, Illinois), Kenwood, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Teaching and Learning, Chicago Public Schools
-
Open thread: The weeks in review
Change of SubjectThe "Weeks in Review" feature is now an open thread in which commenters can talk about any current events or cultural phenomena that have caught their attention, including but not limited to the topics brought up in our traditional roundup...... -
CTU teachers, parents march to protest closings
Tribune reporterAbout 100 people, including local teachers, parents and students, marched Saturday morning on the South Side in protest of the proposed closing of 54 schools. The protest, organized by the Chicago Teachers Union, kicked off at 10 a.m. at Jesse Owens...Tags: Chicago Mayor, Elementary Schools, Teaching and Learning, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union
-
Michigan Avenue merchants fear they'll be the victims of robbery hoax
The bizarre saga of a 68-year-old woman who said she was forced to hand over jewelry valued at more than $135,000 to a group of menacing young men on the bustling Magnificent Mile reverberated around the country. Some 36 hours later, police had...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Prosecution, Stranger Than Fiction, Bars and Clubs, Crime, Law and Justice
-
Teachers elect Lewis to 2nd term as CTU head
Tribune reporterChicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, an often controversial leader who took on Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a strike last fall and has been leading the fight against the district’s plan to close schools, was reelected to a second three-year term...Tags: Politics, Chicago Mayor, Teaching and Learning, Chicago Public Schools, Career and Workplace
-
Road between drivers, cyclists threatens to widen
One morning as Rick Cunningham drove to work at the Chicago Board of Trade, he signaled to a cyclist on his right that he was going to pass the car in front of him. As Cunningham merged back into his lane, apparently close to the biker, the cyclist did...
Tags: Chicago Mayor, Services and Shopping, Chicago Board of Trade, Crime, Law and Justice, Vehicles
-
Plan aims to turn Navy Pier into more of a park
Navy Pier, the highly commercial tourist attraction jutting into Lake Michigan, will take on a more parklike feel under the first phase of redevelopment plans formally announced Friday. Due to cost constraints, the initial $176 million remake does not...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Navy Pier, Architecture, Chicago Hotels, Manhattan (New York City)
-
IRS scandal a reminder of how I learned about The Chicago Way
The Internal Revenue Service scandal now devouring the Obama administration — the outrageous use of the federal taxing authority to target tea party and other conservatives — certainly makes for meaty partisan politics. But this scandal is...Tags: Business, Heroin, Wrigley Field, White House, Parties and Movements
-
Editorial: Mayor Difficult -- Has Emanuel alienated Chicagoans?
Early in 2011, Candidate Rahm Emanuel warned Chicagoans that their City Hall had to fix its finances or risk entering into eternal rest. The distance from broke government to broken government, he observed, is short: Without restoring financial health,...
Tags: Richard M. Daley, Pension and Welfare, Career and Workplace, Finance, Elections
May 20, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
May 20, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
May 20, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
May 20, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
May 17, 2013
| Chicago Tribune
May 18, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
May 18, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
May 18, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
May 18, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
May 18, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
May 19, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
May 19, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Original site for Rahm Emanuel topic gallery.
