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Tue, 06/24/2014 - 4:07pm

Mayor Rahm Emanuel while speaking at the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce’s 110th annual meeting Tuesday called on business leaders to help create job-training opportunities for young members of the city’s workforce.

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Tue, 06/24/2014 - 2:59pm

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and several aldermen are expected to introduce at Wednesday’s City Council meeting an ordinance that would prohibit for six months the demolition and conversion of single-room occupancy hotels and residential hotels into high-priced apartments; City leaders hope moratorium will give them time to determine how they will regulate gentrification that has put thousands of very-low-income housing units at risk

Mon, 06/23/2014 - 11:51am

Mayor Rahm Emanuel will introduce an ordinance at Wednesday’s City Council meeting that would increase fines for graffiti from $750 to between $1,500 and $2,500; Repeat offenders would be subjected to higher fines

Wed, 06/18/2014 - 4:14pm

Mike Rendina is slated to succeed Matt Hynes as Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s director of intergovernmental affairs; Rendina in 2010 ran Alexi Gianoulias’ U.S. Senate campaign and the gubernatorial campaign of Dan Hynes, Matt Hynes’ brother

Wed, 06/11/2014 - 11:57am

Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a May 25 letter to Marty Nesbitt, head of the Barack Obama Presidential Foundation, called for the Obama Presidential Library and Museum to be developed on Chicago’s South Side; Emanuel wrote, “I believe the library should be housed on the South Side not only because that is where the president began his career and built a home for his family, but because that is where the economic, job creation and social impact of the library will be the greatest”

Fri, 06/06/2014 - 4:07pm

Source told Crain’s Chicago Business the newfound working relationship between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and city Inspector General Joe Ferguson is “right where it needs to be,” adding, “A mayor and his inspector general shouldn’t be picnicking in the park together and reading each other poetry”; Ferguson, who had planned to resign after bringing the city into compliance with the Shakman decree, this week announced he plans so stay on

Thu, 06/05/2014 - 3:51pm

Chicago Public Library spokeswoman Ruth Lednicer said Mayor Rahm Emanuel has favorable odds in his bet with NBC’s “The Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon that Chicago children could read at least 2.4 million books in Summer Learning Program; About 71,000 Chicago youth read 2.1 million books last summer, and more kids are expected to participate this year; Fallon’s “The Tonight Show” would film an episode in Chicago if Emanuel wins the bet

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 4:34pm

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday announced the city sued five pharmaceutical companies, claiming the drug makers have overstated the benefits of the opiate-based prescription drugs they produce, in turn fueling an epidemic of addiction in Chicago and throughout the United States.

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Tue, 06/03/2014 - 4:19pm

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday will appear on Jimmy Fallon’s the “Tonight Show” on NBC; Emanuel said he would make an appearance on the show if Fallon participated with the mayor in March’s Special Olympics Chicago Polar Plunge fundraiser, which the “Tonight Show” host did

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 1:52pm

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Minimum Wage Working Group is scheduled to hold its first of five public hearings Monday, at Kennedy-King College from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Working group – comprised of 16 elected officials, business executives and nonprofit leaders – is charged with exploring the possibility of raising Chicago’s minimum wage, although Emanuel has not revealed specifics of the proposal

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