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Rahm Emanuel attends a 2011 fundraiser at the Chicago home of Rajiv Fernando, the CEO of Chopper Trading, a firm that has donated to Emanuel and ultimately benefited. Valets welcomed dozens of guests who paid $2,500 to $20,000 for the opportunity to see the mayor.

Tribune report: Emanuel’s rare political reach fuels fundraising machine

May 15, 2019 at 2:28 p.m.

When three Chicago financial trading firms traveled to Washington, D.C., for a crucial meeting with federal regulators, they didn't go alone. They brought a man schooled in the ways of...

Rahm Emanuel counts on big donors, with many getting City Hall benefits

May 25, 2019 at 12:52 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is building the most potent political cash machine in Chicago history by focusing on an elite circle of donors who frequently receive City Hall benefits, ranging from...

Gov. Pat Quinn concedes his election loss to Bruce Rauner on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014 at the Thompson Center.

Quinn couldn’t get enough from Democratic base to hold off Rauner

August 18, 2019 at 6:17 p.m.

In the toughest political fight of his life, Gov. Pat Quinn couldn't muster enough support from his all-important Democratic base in Chicago and Cook County even as Republican Bruce Rauner...

Republican challenger Bruce Rauner and Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn.

Quinn, Rauner in final frenzy to get out the vote

August 18, 2019 at 6:09 p.m.

With polls tight and pre-election tensions tighter, Democrat Pat Quinn and Republican Bruce Rauner are now turning to the final, furious and perhaps most critical phase of their record-setting $96...

Republican candidate for Illinois governor Bruce Rauner with Gregg Brown, right, president of the South Side Community Federal Credit Union.

Rauner courts black votes with $1M investment

August 21, 2019 at 5:13 p.m.

Gregg Brown never met Bruce Rauner before the late summer day the wealthy Republican candidate for governor came calling with $1 million worth of personal checks and an army of...

Emanuel-Rauner ties create campaign subplot

August 23, 2019 at 11:19 a.m.

Just a few months before announcing plans to become Chicago's next Democratic mayor, Rahm Emanuel strolled down the gravel path to a Montana resort restaurant with Republican businessman Bruce Rauner,...

Remap group pulls plug after judge’s ruling

May 15, 2019 at 2:12 p.m.

A group that mounted a $3 million effort to ask voters this fall to take politics out of the redrawing of legislative boundaries dropped its effort Friday, hours after a...

Madigan sends enforcer into remap battle

June 18, 2018 at 9:34 a.m.

As Michael Madigan's paid electoral enforcer, attorney Michael Kasper knows that his reputation precedes him. So when asked to give his name at a recent state elections board hearing, he...

Remap group pulls plug after judge’s ruling

May 23, 2019 at 4:41 p.m.

A group that mounted a $3 million effort to ask voters this fall to take politics out of the redrawing of legislative boundaries dropped its effort Friday, hours after a...

Elections board gives remap supporters leeway in ballot challenge

December 23, 2018 at 6:15 p.m.

Amid criticism that it was undermining an effort to change how Illinois' political maps are drawn, the Illinois State Board of Elections on Tuesday gave more leeway to the bipartisan...

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