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Emanuel’s latest ad: I can be better

August 18, 2019 at 7:07 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is going up Wednesday night with what could be his closing TV ad of the campaign, another spot in which he says he gets the message that...

Mayoral candidate Jesus "Chuy" Garcia addresses the media during a news conference to release his ethics policy agenda on March 31, 2015, outside Citadel global headquarters in Chicago.

Garcia hits Emanuel on ‘pay-to-play’ politics

May 15, 2019 at 2:37 p.m.

Challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia on Tuesday criticized Mayor Rahm Emanuel for "pay-to-play" politics, staging a news conference outside the Loop headquarters of a top donor to the mayor's campaign.Garcia said...

Alderman and former mayoral opponent, Bob Fioretti, one of the mayor's staunchest opponents in city council, endorses Mayor Rahm Emanuel for mayor Sunday March 29, 2015 with Secretary of State Jesse White standing beside them.

Critic Fioretti says Emanuel has changed, but Garcia downplays endorsement

August 18, 2019 at 7:05 p.m.

Standing in the basement dining room of a West Loop Greek restaurant Sunday afternoon, Mayor Rahm Emanuel accepted the endorsement of one of his chief antagonists -- former mayoral candidate...

Mayoral candidates Jesus "Chuy" Garcia and Rahm Emanuel will participate in a debate Tuesday night.

Emanuel and Garcia scour city for votes

May 15, 2019 at 2:36 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia held dueling rallies and both made appearances before an African-American women's convention Saturday as they scour the city for votes ahead of...

The stewardship of Chicago Public Schools has emerged as a major issue in the mayoral runoff between Mayor Rahm Emanuel, left, and challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, shown arriving March 26, 2015, for a televised debate.

Differences over Chicago schools stir mayor’s race for Emanuel, Garcia

May 15, 2019 at 2:36 p.m.

About 200 Chicago schoolteachers, wearing the red T-shirts their union has embraced as a symbol of solidarity against Mayor Rahm Emanuel, gathered in a Pilsen union hall recently for a...

Garcia and Emanuel debate O’Hare noise

May 15, 2019 at 2:36 p.m.

Mayoral challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia sought to score political points Friday on the issue of jet noise from O'Hare International Airport, meeting with disgruntled residents on the Northwest Side who...

Mayoral candidate Jesus "Chuy" Garcia welcomes Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis on March 26, 2015, to a meeting at Pearl's Place Restaurant in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood. Lewis recruited Garcia to run after illness prevented her from mounting a campaign.

Garcia, Lewis have lunch in rare joint public appearance

May 15, 2019 at 2:36 p.m.

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis on Thursday made her first public appearance of the runoff election with the candidate she recruited to challenge Mayor Rahm Emanuel when a cancer...

Mayoral candidate Jesus "Chuy" Garcia takes a photo with a supporter March 25, 2015, at a candidate forum at Chicago State University.

Garcia touts 2 tax proposals as fixes for city’s finances

May 25, 2019 at 12:55 p.m.

After weeks of being criticized by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his surrogates for not offering specific tax increase proposals to fix Chicago's finances, challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia offered two on...

Mayoral candidate Jesus "Chuy" Garcia prepares to join the Chicago Teachers Union and Fight for 15 at a news conference March 25, 2015, to call for an increase in the minimum wage for Chicago Public Schools employees.

Garcia wants $15 minimum wage at CPS, but won’t say how to pay for it

May 22, 2019 at 7:36 p.m.

Mayoral challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia joined the Chicago Teachers Union in a call for a $15 minimum wage for public schools employees and contractors on Wednesday, but did not say...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel talks with African-American ministers after a meeting March 20, 2015, in which they pledged to support his re-election bid. Among them was the Rev. James Meeks, head of the large Salem Baptist Church, who opposed Emanuel four years ago.

African-American vote could be key to Chicago mayoral election

May 15, 2019 at 2:35 p.m.

Jesus "Chuy" Garcia joined with supporters in Englewood as they walked past abandoned buildings and trash-strewn vacant lots before coming upon one of the few occupied storefronts along Halsted Street...

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