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Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks Feb. 14, 2018.

Emanuel administration sues top drug distributors over opioid crisis

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration has filed a lawsuit against the nation’s three largest opioid distributors, alleging they unlawfully circulated the addictive narcotics in Chicago. The lawsuit, filed in federal court...

Emanuel vows to push ahead on $8.5B O’Hare expansion as American Airlines decries ‘secret deal’

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

For more than a year, negotiations over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's major $8.5 billion expansion of O'Hare International Airport were heating up behind the scenes, and on Wednesday they boiled over...

Emanuel starts sales pitch on ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ $8.5 billion O’Hare expansion

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel broke out a string of strong adjectives on Monday as he began to sell an $8.5 billion expansion of O'Hare International Airport, calling his vision to catapult...

Emanuel wants state gun control approved, including new bill named for slain Cmdr. Bauer

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

Declaring that America is in the midst of a gun violence crisis, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday urged state lawmakers and Gov. Bruce Rauner to approve a series of gun...

Chicago, airlines nearing $8.5 billion deal to dramatically expand O’Hare

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago’s airline carriers are in the final stages of negotiating a blockbuster $8.5 billion deal to dramatically expand O’Hare International Airport with a state-of-the-art global terminal,...

Aon Center's current owner and the firm hired to sell the building have planted seeds in the minds of potential buyers that the property might be able to accommodate an observation deck.

Aon Center owners float plan for sky-high exterior elevator to new observation deck

May 23, 2019 at 12:32 a.m.

The owners of the Aon Center are floating a plan to attach a glass-sheathed elevator tower to the skyscraper’s exterior to ferry visitors to and from a new observation deck,...

McCarthy offers campaign preview during fundraiser: Emanuel’s Chicago ‘a mess’

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

Former Chicago top cop Garry McCarthy is not formally running for mayor yet, but he held a Northwest Side fundraiser Sunday afternoon that might as well have served as a...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson visited the Shakespeare District police station in Chicago, Feb. 4, 2018. Emanuel is pushing state legislation targeting the surge of carjackings in the city.

Emanuel wants carjacking crackdown bill from Springfield following surge

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a group of state lawmakers are pushing new legislation in Springfield aimed at cracking down on the surge of carjackings in Chicago by closing a loophole...

As heavy clouds roll over the Chicago skyline, the evening sun glints off Willis Tower on Jan. 22, 2018.

Credit rating agency upgrades Chicago debt, says investors face ‘small risk of loss’

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

One Wall Street bond-rating agency on Monday upgraded Chicago’s debt by two notches, crediting Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s efforts to fix severely underfunded worker pension funds. The upgrade from Kroll Bond...

The former Dominick's space in the South Shore neighborhood's Jeffery Plaza, seen here in 2014, is set to be taken over by Shop & Save Market.

South Shore could get long-awaited grocery store in former Dominick’s space

December 14, 2018 at 6:49 p.m.

After more than four years of waiting, the South Shore neighborhood is one step closer to having a grocery store in the space of a former Dominick’s. On Friday afternoon,...

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