Mayor's Office

Mayor Rahm Emanuel visited O’Hare Airport on Thursday, along with U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and other officials, to mark the opening of the new Runway 10C-28C; Runway, the final initiative under the first phase of the O’Hare Modernization Program, is 10,800-feet-long and O’Hare’s fourth east-west parallel runway

Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced an intergovernmental agreement between the Chicago Department of Transportation and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District to the City Council Wednesday to share the design costs of a tunnel that would divert stormwater past the Albany Park neighborhood and into the North Shore Channel

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday announced his selection of Chicago Department of Buildings Commissioner Michael Merchant to succeed Charles Woodyard as chief executive of the Chicago Housing Authority; Woodyard on Tuesday announced his resignation from the CHA, effective Nov. 1

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday welcomed Wang Chao, China's vice minister of commerce to Chicago; Emanuel and Wang discussed possibilities for improving the economic relationship between Chicago and China

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday announced a proposed $690,000 allocation in the 2014 city budget to fund the city’s Small Business Center’s transition to an entirely paperless system; City plans to move all licenses and permits online by 2016

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday announced his 2014 city budget will not include property, sales or gas tax increases; Mayor did not rule out cigarette or liquor tax increases and unveiled a proposal to increase fees for businesses that apply for zoning and building permits in person instead of electronically

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle on Tuesday announced the city and county have identified nearly $71 million in savings and new revenue as a result of two years of intergovernmental collaboration on procurements, grant applications and the use of facilities and equipment

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is pushing forward with his plan to save the city $23.7 million in 2014 by reducing a 55 percent health care subsidy afforded to about 30,000 retired city workers and dependents, according to the Chicago Sun-Times; City is facing a projected $338.7 million budget gap in 2014

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday announced that Chicago-based digital technology firms drew more than $265 million in investments during the third quarter of the year; Leading the fundraising efforts in Chicago were: Network Merchants with $100 million in investments; Cleversafe, which attracted $55 million; and Avant Credit, which raised $20 million